Using Evidence of Student Learning to Improve Higher Education


George D. Kuh
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books.

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Hoboken : : Wiley, , 2014.
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1 online resource (304 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Using Evidence of Student Learning to Improve Higher Education; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; 1 From Compliance to Ownership: Why and How Colleges and Universities Assess Student Learning; A Culture of Compliance; Realizing the Promise of Assessment; Harvesting Results; Relevant Issues; Campus Partners and End Users; Begin with the End in Mind: Anticipating Use; What This Book Promises; What Counts as Evidence?; What Are Relevant Examples of Productive Use of Evidence of Student Learning?; How Can Assessment Work Be Better Organized and Led?. - Obstacles to the Effective Use of EvidenceInformation's Social Life; What Counts as Evidence; Policymakers; Accreditors; Faculty; Campus Administrators-Chairs, Deans, and Provosts; The Public: Students and Parents; Conclusion: Moving to What Matters for Improvement; 3 Fostering Greater Use of Assessment Results: Principles for Effective Practice; A Brief History of Assessment Practice; Doing Assessment Versus Using Results; Good Practice: Examples of Effective Use; Distinct Levels of Use; Begin with Use in Mind; Leveraging External Processes; Linking Assessment to Internal Processes. - Organize for Flexibility. - The Quest to Close the Assessment LoopSeven Principles for Fostering Greater Use of Assessment Results; 4 Making Assessment Consequential: Organizing to Yield Results; How Is Assessment Work Organized?; What Is Being Organized?; How Should Assessment Be Organized If Improvement Is the Goal?; Identify All the Places Learning Occurs; Foster Cross‐Campus Collaboration Through Assessment Committees; Link End Users of Assessment Work with Assessment Professionals; Principles for Organizing Assessment; Organize with Purpose; Organize for Systemic Learning; Organize for Distinction. - What Can Be Done to Ameliorate the Debilitating Effects of Initiative Fatigue That Often Come with Assessment Work and Related Improvement Efforts?How Can Institutions Best Respond to the Clamor for More Transparency About Student and Institutional Performance?; Part One What Works? Finding and Using Evidence; 2 Evidence of Student Learning: What Counts and What Matters for Improvement; Sources and Properties of Assessment Evidence; Surveys; General Knowledge and Skills Tests; Classroom Assignments; Portfolios; Rubrics; Learning Analytics; Consequential Validity. - What Can Institutions Do to Involve in the Assessment Process Those Whose Contributions Are Most Central to Improving Student Learning?How Can Campus Leaders at All Levels Create and Sustain a Culture of Evidence That Emphasizes Improvement?; With Its Role in Prompting Assessment Well Established, What Can Accreditors Do to Become Even More Helpful to Promoting a Culture of Evidence for Improvement in Higher Education?; What Has Been and Will Likely Be the Influence of State and Federal Policy and Higher Education Affinity Groups on Student Learning Outcomes Assessment?. - American higher education needs a major reframing of student learning outcomes assessment Dynamic changes are underway in American higher education. New providers, emerging technologies, cost concerns, student debt, and nagging doubts about quality all call out the need for institutions to show evidence of student learning. From scholars at the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA), Using Evidence of Student Learning to Improve Higher Education presents a reframed conception and approach to student learning outcomes assessment. The authors explain why it is counterproduct
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