Download or read book Student Goals for College and Courses A Missing Link in Assessing and Improving Academic Achievement written by Joan S. Stark and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1989-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrasts the frequently-overlooked educational goals of students with the expectations of institutions. Views goals in terms of specificity, clarity, source, commitment, and temporality, and demonstrates frameworks and uses for course-specific goals inventories.

Download or read book Student Goals for Colleges and Courses written by Joan S. Stark and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the United States debates what it expects of college graduates and how to measure the achievement of these expectations, the goals of students frequently are overlooked. Goals are what individuals hope to achieve and accomplish. Currently most colleges collect information about the broad goals students hold for attending college as they enter, and the information is used for administrative planning or developing strategies to recruit and retain students. Some institutions also collect perceptions from graduating seniors and alumni about the extent to which they achieved their academic, personal, social, and vocational goals in college. Few institutions measure how student goals change from entrance to graduation or as a result of specific programs of study. Scholars have developed typologies related to student characteristics, which have been criticized for perpetuating stereotypes. New developments in social science can help guide development of a comprehensive course-specific goals inventory capable of illuminating the multidimensional goal patterns students bring to college and the classroom. Faculty can use course-level goals to improve teaching and assessment. An inventory will soon be available for use by classroom teachers and researchers. (Mse).

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Download or read book Assessing Student Outcomes Why Who What How written by J. Fredericks Volkwein and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers administrators and practitioners a summary guide to assessment in higher education, from the reasons for undertaking assessment to the delivery of findings. It opens with the questions that precede an effective study and drive research design: To what extent is the study aimed at educational improvement, and to what extent is it aimed at external accountability? Are the results expected to demonstrate goal attainment, improvement, comparison to others, meeting standards, cost-effective investment? What is the population from whom assessment data are being collected: Are we measuring the knowledge and skills of individuals and making decisions about their remediation, certification, or development? Or are we sampling from particular groups of students and comparing them to each other, or perhaps to themselves over time? The core of the volume is devoted to the objects of assessment: basic skills, general education knowledge, attainment in the major, personal growth, attitudes and satisfaction, and alumni outcomes, keeping in mind both cognitive and noncognitive measures. One chapter describes common obstacles to effective assessment; others describe conceptual models, research methods, and data collection strategies and instruments. The concluding chapter underscores the importance of communicating research results effectively. This is a special volume of the Jossey-Bass higher education quarterly report series New Directions for Institutional Research. Always timely and comprehensive, New Directions for Institutional Research provides planners and administrators in all types of academic institutions with guidelines in such areas as resource coordination, information analysis, program evaluation, and institutional management.

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Download or read book The Handbook of Practice and Research in Study Abroad written by Ross Lewin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-published with the Association for American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) The Handbook of Practice and Research in Study Abroad is a comprehensive survey of the field. Each chapter eloquently conveys an enthusiasm for study abroad alongside a critical assessment of the most up-to-date research, theory, and practice.

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Download or read book Proclaiming and Sustaining Excellence written by Karen Maitland Schilling and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1998-04-13 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report addresses trends and issues in assessment in relation to the role of college faculty, including advances in assessment that make it more congenial to faculty, different institutional approaches to assessment, and how assessment can be viewed as a faculty role. The report identifies major shifts in the assessment framework, changes in practice or assessment methods, changing policies governing assessment, and different institutional approaches to assessment. It suggests that six conditions are necessary if faculty is to view assessment as an integral part of its role. These include embedding assessment in a fiscal and policy context that supports innovation; basing assessment on evidence and forms of judgment that disciplinary specialists find credible; and identifying assessment as a stimulus to reflective practice. After an introductory chapter which defines assessment and provides an historical context, individual chapters discuss: (1) conceptual or theoretical advances such as the talent-development or value-added perspective, (2) methodological advances such as multiple measures of performance, (3) policy advances, including changing notions of accountability, (4) the faculty's involvement in assessments, with examples from campuses, such as assessment as scholarship and assessment as administrative service, and (5) envisioning assessment as a faculty role in a supportive fiscal and policy context. (Contains 140 references.)(DB).

Download or read book The Handbook of Practice and Research in Study Abroad written by Ross Lewin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 991 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-published with the Association for American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) If we are all becoming global citizens, what then are our civic responsibilities? Colleges and universities across the United States have responded to this question by making the development of global citizens part of their core mission. A key strategy for realizing this goal is study abroad. After all, there may be no better way for students to acquire the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to become effective change-agents in international contexts. The Handbook of Practice and Research in Study Abroad is a comprehensive survey of the field. Each chapter eloquently conveys an enthusiasm for study abroad alongside a critical assessment of the most up-to-date research, theory and practice. This contributed volume brings together expert academics, senior administrators, practitioners of study abroad, and policy makers from across the United States, Canada and other part of the world, who meticulously address the following questions: What do we mean by global citizenship and global competence? What are the philosophical, pedagogical and practical challenges facing institutions as they endeavor to create global citizens? How is study abroad and global citizenship compatible with the role of the academy? What are the institutional challenges to study abroad, including those related to ethics, infrastructure, finances, accessibility, and quality control? Which study abroad programs can be called successful? The Handbook of Practice and Research in Study Abroad is an indispensable reference volume for scholars, higher education faculty, study abroad professionals, policy makers, and the academic libraries that serve these audiences. It is also appropriate for a wide range of courses in Higher Education Master’s and Ph.D. Programs.

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