Download or read book The Collegiate Learning Assessment written by Chaitra M. Hardison and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report describes the application of a technique for setting standards on the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA), a measure of critical thinking value-added at higher education institutions. The goal of the report is to illustrate how institutions can set their own standards on the CLA using a method that is appropriate for the unique characteristics of the CLA." -- provided by publisher.
Download or read book Collegiate Learning Assessment Test Cla written by National Learning Corporation and published by Admission Test. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Collegiate Learning Assessment Test (CLA+) Passbook(R) prepares you for your exam by allowing you to take practice tests modeled after and similar to the selective-response questions found on the CLA+. These questions cover scientific & quantitative reasoning, critical reading & evaluation, and critiquing arguments, and require test-takers to base their answers on a series of supporting documents, including but not limited to: graphs, charts, tables, photos, articles, memos and emails.
Download or read book Academically Adrift written by Richard Arum and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelor’s degree is now required for entry into a growing number of professions. And some parents begin planning for the expense of sending their kids to college when they’re born. Almost everyone strives to go, but almost no one asks the fundamental question posed by Academically Adrift: are undergraduates really learning anything once they get there? For a large proportion of students, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa’s answer to that question is a definitive no. Their extensive research draws on survey responses, transcript data, and, for the first time, the state-of-the-art Collegiate Learning Assessment, a standardized test administered to students in their first semester and then again at the end of their second year. According to their analysis of more than 2,300 undergraduates at twenty-four institutions, 45 percent of these students demonstrate no significant improvement in a range of skills—including critical thinking, complex reasoning, and writing—during their first two years of college. As troubling as their findings are, Arum and Roksa argue that for many faculty and administrators they will come as no surprise—instead, they are the expected result of a student body distracted by socializing or working and an institutional culture that puts undergraduate learning close to the bottom of the priority list. Academically Adrift holds sobering lessons for students, faculty, administrators, policy makers, and parents—all of whom are implicated in promoting or at least ignoring contemporary campus culture. Higher education faces crises on a number of fronts, but Arum and Roksa’s report that colleges are failing at their most basic mission will demand the attention of us all.
Download or read book Collegiate Learning Assessment Test CLA written by National Learning Corporation and published by Passbooks. This book was released on 2019-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Collegiate Learning Assessment Test (CLA+) Passbook(R) prepares you for your exam by allowing you to take practice tests modeled after and similar to the selective-response questions found on the CLA+. These questions cover scientific & quantitative reasoning, critical reading & evaluation, and critiquing arguments, and require test-takers to base their answers on a series of supporting documents, including but not limited to: graphs, charts, tables, photos, articles, memos and emails.
Download or read book COLLEGIATE LEARNING ASSESSMENT TEST CLA written by National Learning Corporation and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evidence of Learning written by Council of Independent Colleges and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report highlights the experiences of the 33 members of CIC's (Council of Independent Colleges) Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) Consortium over the past three years as they used the CLA to measure student learning outcomes. The CLA instrument assesses how the college experience helps students develop such "higher order" cognitive skills as critical thinking, analytic reasoning, problem-solving, and effective writing. A list of 5 related resources and 11 sources of research and related articles are provided. [Financial support for this publication was provided by the Teagle Foundation.].
Download or read book Learning Assessment Techniques written by Elizabeth F. Barkley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50 Techniques for Engaging Students and Assessing Learning in College Courses Do you want to: Know what and how well your students are learning? Promote active learning in ways that readily integrate assessment? Gather information that can help make grading more systematic and streamlined? Efficiently collect solid learning outcomes data for institutional assessment? Provide evidence of your teaching effectiveness for promotion and tenure review? Learning Assessment Techniques provides 50 easy-to-implement active learning techniques that gauge student learning across academic disciplines and learning environments. Using Fink's Taxonomy of Significant Learning as its organizational framework, it embeds assessment within active learning activities. Each technique features: purpose and use, key learning goals, step-by-step implementation, online adaptation, analysis and reporting, concrete examples in both on-site and online environments, and key references—all in an easy-to-follow format. The book includes an all-new Learning Goals Inventory, as well as more than 35 customizable assessment rubrics, to help teachers determine significant learning goals and appropriate techniques. Readers will also gain access to downloadable supplements, including a worksheet to guide teachers through the six steps of the Learning Assessment Techniques planning and implementation cycle. College teachers today are under increased pressure to teach effectively and provide evidence of what, and how well, students are learning. An invaluable asset for college teachers of any subject, Learning Assessment Techniques provides a practical framework for seamlessly integrating teaching, learning, and assessment.
Download or read book Time on Test Student Motivation and Performance on the Collegiate Learning Assessment written by Braden J. Hosch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using results from the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) administered at Central Connecticut State University, a public Carnegie master's-larger programs university in the Northeast, this study demonstrates time on spent on the test, student motivation, and to a lesser extent the local institutional administration procedures represent problematic intervening variables in the measurement of student learning. Findings from successive administrations of the instrument reveal wide year-to-year variations in student performance related to time on test and motivation. Significant additional study of these factors should likely be prioritized ahead of adoption of accountability practices that rely upon low-stakes testing to measure student learning and demonstrate institutional effectiveness. Survey Results with Time on Test and Test Scores (F '08, Sp. '09 & F '09) are appended. (Contains 8 tables and 3 footnotes.).
Download or read book Measuring College Learning Responsibly written by Richard Shavelson and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines current practices in assessment of learning and accountability at a time when accrediting boards, the federal government and state legislatures are requiring higher education to account for such outcomes as student retention, graduation, and learning.
Download or read book Developing Institutional Standards for Critical Thinking Using the Collegiate Learning Assessment written by Rand Corporation and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building the Intentional University written by Stephen M. Kosslyn and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to rebuild higher education from the ground up for the twenty-first century. Higher education is in crisis. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world's students. But how would you reinvent it for the twenty-first century—how would you build it from the ground up? Many have speculated about changing higher education, but Minerva has actually created a new kind of university program. Its founders raised the funding, assembled the team, devised the curriculum and pedagogy, recruited the students, hired the faculty, and implemented a bold vision of a new and improved higher education. This book explains that vision and how it is being realized. The Minerva curriculum focuses on “practical knowledge” (knowledge students can use to adapt to a changing world); its pedagogy is based on scientific research on learning; it uses a novel technology platform to deliver small seminars in real time; and it offers a hybrid residential model where students live together, rotating through seven cities around the world. Minerva equips students with the cognitive tools they need to succeed in the world after graduation, building the core competencies of critical thinking, creative thinking, effective communication, and effective interaction. The book offers readers both the story of this grand and sweeping idea and a blueprint for transforming higher education.
Download or read book Assessing the Generic Outcomes of College written by Gary R. Pike and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does college teach, really? As demands for accountability intensify, meaningful measurement of broad college outcomes becomes increasingly important. Here, you'll take a journey through the history of assessment instruments, starting with the creation of the first general outcomes assessment tools in the 1980s. You'll follow the evolution of the tools, writing and critical thinking, and finally the concept of value-added analysis, an appealing but elusive goal for assessors.
Download or read book Assessment of Learning Outcomes in Higher Education written by Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive overview of current, innovative approaches to assessing generic and domain-specific learning outcomes in higher education at both national and international levels. It discusses the most significant initiatives over the past decade to develop objective, valid, and reliable assessment tools and presents state-of-the-art procedures to adapt and validate them for use in other countries. The authors highlight key conceptual and methodological challenges connected with intra-national and cross-national assessment of learning outcomes in higher education; introduce novel approaches to improving assessment, evaluation, testing, and measurement practices; and offer exemplary implementation frameworks. Further, they examine the results of and lessons learned from various recent, world-renowned research programs and feasibility studies, and present results from their own studies to provide new insights into how to draw valid conclusions about learning outcomes achieved in various contexts.
Download or read book Assessing Student Learning written by Linda Suskie and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Assessing Student Learning has become the standard reference for college faculty and administrators who are charged with the task of assessing student learning within their institutions. The second edition of this landmark book offers the same practical guidance and is designed to meet ever-increasing demands for improvement and accountability. This edition includes expanded coverage of vital assessment topics such as promoting an assessment culture, characteristics of good assessment, audiences for assessment, organizing and coordinating assessment, assessing attitudes and values, setting benchmarks and standards, and using results to inform and improve teaching, learning, planning, and decision making.
Download or read book Assessing Business planning Competence Using the Collegiate Learning Assessment as a Prototype written by Richard J. Shavelson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond the College Transcript written by Pam Bowers and published by . This book was released on 2020-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book High impact Educational Practices written by George D. Kuh and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication¿the latest report from AAC&U¿s Liberal Education and America¿s Promise (LEAP) initiative¿defines a set of educational practices that research has demonstrated have a significant impact on student success. Author George Kuh presents data from the National Survey of Student Engagement about these practices and explains why they benefit all students, but also seem to benefit underserved students even more than their more advantaged peers. The report also presents data that show definitively that underserved students are the least likely students, on average, to have access to these practices.
