Download or read book The NPEC Sourcebook on Assessment Selected institutions utilizing assessment results written by T. Dary Erwin and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book National Postsecondary Education Cooperative NPEC Sourcebook on Assessment Volume Two Selected Institutions Utilizing Assessment Results written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) presents the full text of "The National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC) Sourcebook on Assessment, Volume Two: Selected Institutions Utilizing Assessment Results" in PDF format. The book contains case studies of institutions that have addressed policy issues though the use of assessment methods.

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Download or read book The NPEC Sourcebook on Assessment Defintions and assessment methods for critical thinking problem solving and writing written by T. Dary Erwin and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 of this sourcebook is a compendium of information about tests used to assess critical thinking, problem solving, and writing. It serves as a tool for people who want comparative data about the policy relevance of specific student outcomes measured in these areas. An interactive version of Volume 1 allows users to specify their areas of interest and create a customized search of assessment measures in the three domain areas. The tests described in Volume 1 are those that are designed to measure cognitive variables for traditional students. The compendium does not describe less traditional methods such as portfolios and competencies. In addition, the evaluations of the tests are based on the way test developers represent them in their materials and, in some cases, in information from third-part reviews. Volume 2 is a companion volume that provides eight case studies of institutions that have addressed related issues through the use of assessment methods in Volume 1. Volume 1 contains the following sections: (1) "General and Specific Issues in Selecting Assessments"; (2) "Critical Thinking and Problem Solving"; (3) "Templates--Critical Thinking and Problem Solving"; (4) "Writing"; (5) "Templates--Writing Commercially Developed Tests"; and (6) "Templates--Writing Locally Developed Tests." Volume 2 discusses the eight case studies and contains four appendixes providing details about the methodology. (Volume 1 contains 10 tables and 150 references.) (SLD)

Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Classroom Communication and Instructional Processes written by Barbara Mae Gayle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-04 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a systematic review of the literature on communication education and instruction. Making meta-analysis findings accessible and relevant, the editors of this volume approach the topic from the perspective that meta-analysis serves as a useful tool for summarizing experiments and for determining how and why specific teaching and learning experiences have positive student outcomes. The topics covered here are meaningful and relevant to classroom practice, and each chapter offers a summary of existing quantitative social science research using meta-analysis. With contributions from experienced researchers throughout the communication discipline, this work provides a unique analysis of research in instructional communication. Taken together, the chapters in this volume enhance understanding of behaviors, practices, and processes that promote positive student outcomes. This book is a must-read for scholars, graduate students, and researchers in communication education, and will also be of interest to scholars and researchers in education.

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Download or read book The NPEC Sourcebook on Assessment written by T. Dary Erwin and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Revisiting Outcomes Assessment in Higher Education written by Peter Hernon and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2006-01-30 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisiting Outcomes Assessment in Higher Education compliments rather than updates Hernon and Dugan's 2004 Outcomes Assessment in Higher Education. As with its predecessor, it offers a cross-campus diversity of voices: contributors hail from various segments of higher organizations, an academic vice president, academic deans, a higher education consultant, faculty members, and librarians. Individually, they shed light on how their corner of the higher education universe views, facilitates, and substantiates outcomes assessment. Together, they document what is known about outcomes assessment in the middle of the first decade of the new century, as institutions and their programs take ever-firmer steps from anecdotal evidence to more rigorous diagnosis and reporting.

Download or read book The NPEC Sourcebook on Assessment Defintions and assessment methods for critical thinking problem solving and writing written by T. Dary Erwin and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The NPEC Sourcebook on Assessment written by T. Dary Erwin and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Proving and Improving written by National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition (University of South Carolina) and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of "Proving and Improving" collects essays from the First-Year Assessment Listserv, which is hosted by the Policy Center on the First Year of College and the National Resource Center. Like the first volume, this one brings together the nation's leading experts and practitioners of assessment in the first college year. They offer overviews of commercially available instruments and provide case studies of qualitative assessment strategies. The monograph also includes a comprehensive introduction by Randy Swing, describing strategies for implementing an effective assessment effort, and a typology of assessment instruments that allows readers to identify and compare instruments geared to the issues and programs they want to assess. This volume commences with a Preface (Mary Stuart Hunter); Overview of Essays (Randy L. Swing); and Introduction to First-Year Assessment (Randy L. Swing). It then divides into six parts and 37 articles, as follows. Part 1, "Institutional Records," contains: (1) Introducing the Data Audit and Analysis Toolkit (Karen Paulson); (2) Your First Stop for Information: The Office of Institutional Research (Karen Webber Bauer); (3) Using EnrollmentSearch to Track First-Year Success (John P. Ward); (4) Using Archived Course Records for First-Year Program Assessment (Debora L. Scheffel and Marie Revak); and (5) Freshman Absence-Based Intervention at The University of Mississippi (Catherine Anderson). Part 2, "Student Voices," contains: (6) Basics of Focus Groups (Libby V. Morris); (7) Looking at the First-Year Experience Qualitatively and Longitudinally (Marcia J. Belcheir); (8) Using "Think Alouds" to Evaluate Deep Understanding (Lendol Calder and Sarah-Eva Carlson); (9) The Promise Audit: Who's Promising What to Students (Marian Allen Claffey and Ned Scott Laff); (10) A Case Study on Developing Faculty Buy-In for Assessment (Lissa Yogan); and (12) The First-Year Prompts Project: A Qualitative Research Study Revisited (Elizabeth Hodges and Jean M. Yerian). Part 3, "End of Program/Course Evaluations," contains: (13) Using Interactive Focus Groups for Course and Program Assessments (Barbara J. Millis); and (14) The College Classroom Environment Scale (Roberta Jessen and Judith Patton). Part 4, "Surveys," contains: (15) The CIRP Freshman Survey and YFCY: Blending Old and New Tools to Improve Assessment of First-Year Students (Linda J. Sax and Shannon K. Gilmartin); (16) Survey Data as Part of First-Year Assessment Efforts: Using the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) Annual Freshman Survey (J. Daniel House); (17) What Students Expect May Not Be What They Get: The PEEK (Perceptions, Expectations, Emotions and Knowledge about College) (Claire Ellen Weinstein, Cynthia A. King, Peggy Pei-Hsuan Hsieh, Taylor W. Acee and David R. Palmer); (18) Assessing Student Expectations of College: The College Student Expectations Questionnaire (Robert M. Gonyea); (19) The College Student Experiences Questionnaire: Assessing Quality of Effort and Perceived Gains in Student Learning (Michael J. Siegel); (20) The Community College Student Experience Questionnaire (Patricia H. Murrell); (21) Knowing How to Learn is as Important as Knowing What to Learn: The Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (Clarie Ellen Weinstein, Angela L. Julie, Stephanie B. Corliss, YoonJung Cho, and David R. Palmer); (22) The Retention Management System: Assessing for Early Intervention (Lana Low and Beth Richter); (23) The Study Behavior Inventory (Leonard B. Bliss); (24) The College Success Factors Index (Edmond C. Hallberg and Garrick Davis); (25) The National Survey of Student Engagement: Benchmarks of Effective Educational Practice (John Hayek); (26) Benchmarking Effective Educational Practice in Community Colleges (Kay M. McClenney); (27) What Matters in First-Year Seminars (Randy L. Swing); (28) Looking at High-Risk Behaviors (John Pryor); and (29) A More Precise Approach to Assessing Student Satisfaction (Julie L. Bryant). Part 5, "Cognitive Tests," contains: (30) Critical Thinking Assessment: Challenges and Options (Marc Cutright); (31) Evaluating General Education Outcomes: College BASE-lining Your First-Year Students (Pamela A. Humphreys); (32) CAAP General Education Assessment Program (David A. Lutz); and (33) The Cognitive Level and Quality Writing Assessment Instrument (Teresa L. Flateby). Part 6, "Trait Inventories," contains: (34) Hope Scale: A Measurement of Willpower and Waypower (Jerry Pattengale); (35) What are Learning Styles? Can We Identify Them? What is Their Place in an Assessment Program? (Linda Suskie); (36) Assessing the First-Year of College: Some Concluding Thoughts (Tracy L. Skipper and Marla Mamrick); and (37) Typology of Instruments (Randy L. Swing). [Individual chapters have references.].

Download or read book NPEC Sourcebook on Assessment written by Elizabeth A. Jones and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faculty, instructional staff, and assessment professionals are interested in student outcomes assessment processes and tools that can be used to improve learning experiences and academic programs. How can students' skills be assessed effectively? What assessments measure skills in communication? Leadership? Information literacy? Quantitative reasoning? This Sourcebook defines the most important outcomes in each of these critical domains. Assessment tools and resources are cited, including explanations of scope, availability, measurability, cost, and other methodological concerns. Research is drawn from numerous publications that include in-depth reviews of the assessments. Faculty and staff at colleges, accrediting agencies, federal and state government agencies, and other organizations--anyone who measures, reports, or is interested in information about student outcomes can benefit from this sourcebook. This Sourcebook includes six chapters and five searchable database tables. The introductory chapter focuses on issues in accountability, internal motivations for institutional change, the background and purpose for this project, and the intended audiences; Chapter 2 outlines the steps that need to be taken when building an effective assessment process; Chapter 3 focuses on the expectations for students' communication, interpersonal, and listening skills; chapter 4 focuses on leadership traits as well as situational and functional approaches to leadership outcomes; chapter 5 discusses the constructs of information literacy as they evolved in response to the changes in technology and library resources; and in chapter 6, the authors differentiate between the key concepts of quantitative reasoning and quantitative literacy, and the assessments associated with these skills.

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.

Download or read book THE NPEC SOURCEBOOK ON ASSESSMENT VOLUME 1 DEFINITIONS AND ASSESSMENT METHODS FOR CRITICAL THINKING PROBLEM SOLVING AND WRITING AND THE written by United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement and published by . This book was released on 2001* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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