Assessing Student Learning
A Common Sense Guide
3. Edition April 2018
416 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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Assessing Student Learning is a standard reference for college faculty and administrators, and the third edition of this highly regarded book continues to offer comprehensive, practical, plainspoken guidance. The third edition adds a stronger emphasis on making assessment useful; greater attention to building a culture in which assessment is used to inform important decisions; an enhanced focus on the many settings of assessment, especially general education and co-curricula; a new emphasis on synthesizing evidence of student learning into an overall picture of an integrated learning experience; new chapters on curriculum design and assessing the hard-to-assess; more thorough information on organizing assessment processes; new frameworks for rubric design and setting standards and targets; and many new resources. Faculty, administrators, new and experienced assessment practitioners, and students in graduate courses on higher education assessment will all find this a valuable addition to their bookshelves.
List of Lists ix
List of Figure xiii
List of Exhibits xv
Preface to the Third Edition xix
Introduction 1
Part 1 Understanding Assessment
Chapter 1 What Is Assessment? 7
Chapter 2 The Many Settings for Student Learning and Assessment 15
Chapter 3 What Are Effective Assessment Practices? 23
Part 2 Laying a Foundation for Assessment Success
Chapter 4 Learning Goals: Articulating What You Most Want Students to Learn 39
Chapter 5 Designing Curricula to Help Students Learn What's Important 63
Chapter 6 How Will Your Evidence of Student Learning be Used? 85
Chapter 7 Planning Assessments in Academic Programs 93
Chapter 8 Planning Assessments in General Education, Co-curricula, and Other Settings 105
Part 3 Building a Pervasive, Enduring Culture of Evidence and Betterment
Chapter 9 Guiding and Coordinating Assessment Efforts 117
Chapter 10 Helping Everyone Learn What to Do 127
Chapter 11 Supporting Assessment Efforts 139
Chapter 12 Keeping Assessment Cost-Effective 149
Chapter 13 Collaborating on Assessment 165
Chapter 14 Valuing Assessment and the People Who Contribute 175
Part 4 The Assessment Toolbox
Chapter 15 Designing Rubrics to Plan and Assess Assignments 189
Chapter 16 Creating Effective Assignments 205
Chapter 17 Writing Multiple-Choice and Other Objective Tests 215
Chapter 18 Assembling Evidence of Student Learning into Portfolios 235
Chapter 19 Selecting Published Instruments 245
Chapter 20 Other Assessment Tools 259
Chapter 21 Assessing the Hard-to-Assess 273
Part 5 Understanding and Using Evidence of Student Learning
Chapter 22 Setting Meaningful Standards and Targets 287
Chapter 23 Summarizing and Storing Evidence of Student Learning 305
Chapter 24 Analyzing Evidence of Student Learning 319
Chapter 25 Sharing Evidence of Student Learning 333
Chapter 26 Using Evidence of Student Learning to Inform
Important Decisions 355
References 367
Index 377
