{"product_id":"designing-effective-assessment-isbn-9780470393345","title":"Designing Effective Assessment","description":"Fifteen years ago Trudy Banta and her colleagues surveyed the national landscape for the campus examples that were published in the classic work \u003ci\u003eAssessment in Practice\u003c\/i\u003e. Since then, significant advances have occurred, including the use of technology to organize and manage the assessment process and increased reliance on assessment findings to make key decisions aimed at enhancing student learning. Trudy Banta, Elizabeth Jones, and Karen Black offer 49 detailed current examples of good practice in planning, implementing, and sustaining assessment that are practical and ready to apply in new settings. This important resource can help educators put in place an effective process for determining what works and which improvements will have the most impact in improving curriculum, methods of instruction, and student services on college and university campuses.  Preface.  \u003cp\u003eThe Authors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART ONE: PRINCIPLES OF GOOD PRACTICE IN OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Planning Effective Assessment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Implementing Effective Assessment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Improving and Sustaining Effective Assessment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART TWO: PROFILES OF GOOD PRACTICE IN OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Good Practice in Implementing Assessment Planning.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 General Education Profiles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Undergraduate Academic Majors Profiles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Faculty and Staff Development Profiles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Use of Technology Profiles.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Program Review Profiles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 First-Year Experiences, Civic Engagement Opportunities, and International Learning Experiences Profiles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Student Affairs Profiles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Community Colleges Profiles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Graduate Programs Profiles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Good Practice in Improving and Sustaining Assessment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRESOURCES.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Institutional Profiles by Institution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eB Institutional Profiles by Category.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eC Profiled Institutions by Carnegie Classification.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eD Contributors of Profiles Included in Their Entirety.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTrudy W. Banta\u003c\/strong\u003e has written or edited 15 published volumes on assessment, contributed 26 chapter to other published works, and written more than 200 articles and reports on the topic.?She is the founding editor of award-winning \u003cem\u003eAssessment Update\u003c\/em\u003e, a bimonthly Jossy-Bass periodical published since 1989. The?recipient of seven national awards for her work,?Banta has consulted with faculty and administrators in 46 states and numerous countries?on the topic of outcomes assessment and has developed, coordinated, and given invited addresses at numerous national and international conferences. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth A. Jones\u003c\/strong\u003e is professor of higher education leadership at West Virginia University. She has conducted assessment research supported by NPEC that resulted in the publication of two books and served as the principal investigator of a general education assessment project supported by FIPSE. Jones has published numerous articles pertaining to assessment and has presented at national conferences. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKaren E. Black\u003c\/strong\u003e directs the program review process for Indiana-University Purdue University Indianapolis, serves on numerous campus committees including the Program Review and Assessment Committee, teaches for the Organizational Leadership department, and works closely with the North Central Association accreditation on issues for the campus. Black coauthored \u003cem\u003eAssessment in Practice\u003c\/em\u003e (Jossey-Bass, 1996), serves as the managing?editor of \u003cem\u003eAssessment Update\u003c\/em\u003e, and?has written several articles on assessment in higher education.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifteen years ago Trudy Banta and her colleagues surveyed the national landscape for the campus examples that were published in the classic work Assessment in Practice. Since then, significant advances have occurred, including the use of technology to organize and manage the assessment process and increased reliance on assessment findings to make key decisions aimed at enhancing student learning. Trudy Banta, Elizabeth Jones, and Karen Black offer 49 detailed current examples of good practice in planning, implementing, and sustaining assessment that are practical and ready to apply in new settings. This important resource can help educators put in place an effective process for determining what works and which improvements will have the most impact in improving curriculum, methods of instruction, and student services on college and university campuses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Institutional researchers, accreditation committee members, faculty, and all the rest of us working to assess student learning will be inspired by the examples of good practices set in a scholarly context by Banta, Jones, and Black.\" —Randy L. Swing, executive director, Association for Institutional Research\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The authors' long and deep experience in assessment has informed this wonderful resource, which combines overarching principles of effective assessment with concrete case studies drawn from diverse institutions. Readers will learn how to go beyond using standardized test scores as the sole measure of learning, how to establish classroom-based assessment, how to use multiple assessment data for improvement, and how to get faculty involved in the process.\" —Barbara E. Walvoord, author, Effective Grading and Assessment Clear and Simple\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Higher education's preeminent assessment scholars have done it again, responding to growing requests for assessment models and examples of good practice with an extensive array of meaningful, practical profiles. No matter what your institution's mission, and no matter where you are in the assessment process, you will find a wealth of ideas here.\" —Linda Suskie, author, Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jossey-Bass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989048279269,"sku":"NP9780470393345","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780470393345.jpg?v=1761782579","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/designing-effective-assessment-isbn-9780470393345","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}