Assessing and accounting for student learning: beyond the spellings commission

This volume of New Directions for Institutional Research--the first in a series of annual supplements--is intended to help institutional research, assessment professionals, and others involved in assessment. Everyone in this growing group of administrators, faculty, and staff is constantly pursuing two goals: improving programs through the development of internal assessment tools, and answering external demands to account for the quality of student learning and related aspects of institutional functioning. The chapter authors, all leading researchers, provide a historical and conceptual perspective on assessment in higher education and examine some of the tools being developed to make institutional assessment meaningful and useful

• ISBN: 978-0-470-44524-2
• Editorial: Jossey Bass
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 120
• Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés