Enhancing Assessment in Higher Education: Putting Psychometrics to Work - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1620363674 ISBN 13 : 9781620363676

Editeur : Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

Co-published with AIR. The book is guided by the core purpose of assessment, which is to enable faculty, administrators, and student affairs professionals with the information they need to increase student learning by making changes in policies, curricula, and other programs.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tammie Cumming directs the Office of Assessment and Institutional Research (AIR) for the City University of New York - New York City College of Technology. Dr. Cumming has provided educational research and assessment support services in higher education and at ACT, Inc. for more than 25 years and has been an invited speaker on educational assessment and accreditation on an international level, including Brazil, France, Lebanon, Qatar, Russia, United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. She currently serves as an international Program Assessment Workshop facilitator for ABET (formerly Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) and has recently served as a U.S. delegate for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes task force. She also holds an adjunct appointment at the City University of New York Graduate Center in Educational Psychology. Dr. Cumming earned her PhD in Applied Statistics and Psychometrics from The University of Iowa. M. David Miller is a research methodologist interested in psychometrics and large scale assessment. Dr. Miller also serves as the Director of the Collaborative Assessment and Program Evaluation Services (CAPES) at the University of Florida. CAPES was established to support grant funding in the social sciences by providing expertise in evaluation, assessment and research design. In addition, Dr. Miller has directed the development of the university's Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP). The QEP is a required part of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools accreditation. The QEP has developed a campus wide initiative to enhance the learning environment for undergraduate students around the theme of internationalization. This initiative, Learning Without Borders: Internationalizing the Gator Nation, includes curricular enhancement, faculty training, a speaker program, co-curricular enhancements, and a new International Scholar program. Dr. Miller has

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1620363674
• ISBN 13: 9781620363676
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 250
• Éditeur: Cumming Tammie, Miller M. David
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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