Assessing for Learning

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-57922-088-4
Verlag: Stylus Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 214 mm x 277 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

This book offers colleges and universities a framework and tools to design an effective and collaborative assessment process appropriate for their culture and institution. It encapsulates the approach that Peggy Maki has refined through hundreds of successful workshops. She presents extensive examples of processes, strategies and campus practices, as well as key resources, guides, worksheets, and exercises - to assist all stakeholders in the institution to develop and sustain assessment of student learning as an integral and systematic core institutional process. This book sets the assessment of learning within the twin contexts of: the level of a program, department, division, or school within an institution; and the level of an institution, based on its mission statement, educational philosophy, and educational objectives. Each chapter explores ways to position assessment within program- and institutional-level processes, decisions, structures, practices, and channels of communication. Here is a process that any campus can adapt and use to engage all its constituencies - institutional leaders, faculty, staff, administrators, students and those in governance - constructively to forge a vision and commitment to action.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maki, Peggy L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction:; Chapter 1: Developing a Collective Institutional Commitment; Chapter 2: Beginning with Dialogue about Teaching and Learning; Appendix A: Meta-sites for Active Learning and Teaching and Learning Inventories; Chapter 3: Making Claims about Student Learning within Contexts for Learning; Appendix: Example of Leveled Outcome Statements; Chapter 4: Identifying or Designing Tasks to Assess the Dimensions of Learning; Appendix: Strategies for Reviewing and Selecting Standardized Instruments; Chapter 5: Reaching Consensus about Criteria and Standards of Judgment.

Über Autor(innen)

Peggy L. Maki is a higher education consultant specializing in assisting institutions integrate assessment of student learning into educational practices. Formerly Senior Scholar and Director of Assessment at the AAHE, Associate Director of the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc., she has also served as a Dean and Chair at various institutions.