Assessment essentials : planning, implementing, and improving assessment in higher education /

Banta, Trudy W.

Assessment essentials : planning, implementing, and improving assessment in higher education / Trudy W. Banta, Catherine A. Palomba ; foreword by Jillian Kinzie. - 2nd ed. - San Francisco : Jossey-Bass & Pfeiffer Imprints, 2015. - xxiv, 339 p. ; 25 cm. - Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series .

Catherine A. Palomba is the first author on the title page of the first edition.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Defining assessment -- 2. Assessment essentials -- 3. Engaging faculty and students in assessment -- 4. Setting expectations and preparing to select measures -- 5. Using direct measures -- 6. Using indirect assessment methods -- 7. Assessing learning in the major -- 8. Assessing learning in general education -- 9. Assessing student learning and program effectiveness in student affairs -- 10. Analyzing, reporting, and using assessment results -- 11. Assessing institutional effectiveness -- 12. Summing up: a time of transition.

9781118903322 (Cloth)


Universities and colleges--Examinations.--United States

LB2366.2 / .P35 2015