Assessment Clear and Simple: A Practical Guide for Institutions, Departments, and General Education (Jossey-Bass Highter and Adult Education) - Tapa blanda

Walvoord, Barbara E.

 
9780787973117: Assessment Clear and Simple: A Practical Guide for Institutions, Departments, and General Education (Jossey-Bass Highter and Adult Education)
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ISBN 10: 0787973114 ISBN 13: 9780787973117
Editorial: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S., 2004

Sinopsis

"Assessment Clear and Simple" is "Assessment 101" in a book - a concise and step-by-step guide written for everyone who participates in the assessment process. This practical book helps to make assessment simple, cost-efficient, and useful to the institution, while at the same time meeting the requirements of accreditation agencies, legislatures, review boards, and others. "Assessment Clear and Simple" explores a variety of topics and shows how to: build on assessment already in place; use classroom work and grading process; get faculty and department on board; assess hard to define goals such as moral and civic development; development workable learning goals; tailor assessment to its purposes; select sensible assessment measures; make criteria explicit; use assessment to improve learning; establish effective oversight without an assessment bureaucracy; write an assessment report; and, interpret the institution's culture to external audiences.

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Acerca del autor

Barbara E. Walvoord is a fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives and concurrent professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She has been coordinator of Notre Dame's regional accreditation self-study, founding director of four faculty development programs, consultant to more than 250 institutions, and the author of Effective Grading from Jossey-Bass.

De la contraportada

Assessment Clear and Simple is "Assessment 101" in a book?a concise, step-by-step guide written for everyone who participates in the assessment process. This practical book helps to make assessment simple, cost-efficient, and useful to the institution, while at the same time meeting the requirements of accreditation agencies, legislatures, review boards, and others. Assessment Clear and Simple explores a variety of topics and shows how to

  • Build on assessment already in place
  • Use classroom work and grading process
  • Get faculty and department on board
  • Assess hard-to-define goals such as moral and civic development
  • Develop workable learning goals
  • Tailor assessment to its purposes
  • Select sensible assessment measures
  • Make criteria explicit
  • Use assessment to improve learning
  • Establish effective oversight without an assessment bureaucracy
  • Write an assessment report
  • Interpret the institution?s culture to external audiences

Assessment Clear and Simple can help your institution employ assessment as a powerful instrument for improvement and provide a basis for wiser planning, budgeting, and change in curriculum, pedagogy, staffing, programming, and student support.

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Editorial
Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
Año de publicación
2004
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0787973114
ISBN 13 
9780787973117
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
160
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