Making a Difference: Outcomes of a Decade of Assessment in Higher Education - Couverture rigide

Trudy W. Banta & Associates; Et Al

 
9781555425784: Making a Difference: Outcomes of a Decade of Assessment in Higher Education

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Revue de presse

"Finally, we have concrete evidence that assessment has improved academic programs. Watch out skeptics! This book combines real–world experience and expert perspective in a convincing statement about assessment′s legitimacy as a tool for curricular improvement." ––Elaine Elkhawas, vice president for policy analysis and research, American Council on Education

"There are no guarantees when it comes to the impact of assessment. But readers of this new volume will find wonderful, rich accounts of the conditions under which assessment can lead to real improvement." ––Pat Hutchings, director, The Teaching Initiative, American Association for Higher Education

"Academic administrators, assessment committee members, faculty, and professional staff, as well as policy makers, will find a wealth of information in these vivid case studies of assessment at work––and working––in a variety of higher education contexts." ––Barbara Wright, associate professor of German, University of Connecticut

Biographie de l'auteur

TRUDY W. BANTA is vice–chancellor for planning and institutional improvement and professor of higher education at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. Banta was previously director of the Center for Assessment Research and Development at the University of Tennesee, Knoxville (UTK), where she coordinated the UTK outcomes assessment program, one of the largest and most comprehensive programs of its kind in the country.

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