Assessment Clear and Simple (ePub)

The first edition of Assessment Clear and Simple quickly became
the essential go-to guide for anyone who participates in the
assessment process in higher education. With the increased pressure
to perform assessment to demonstrate accountability, Assessment
Clear and Simple is needed more than ever. This second edition of
the classic resource offers a concise, step-by-step guide that
helps make assessment simple, cost-efficient, and useful to an
institution. It contains effective strategies for meeting the
requirements of accreditation agencies, legislatures, review
boards, and others, while emphasizing and showing how to move from
data to actions that improve student learning. This thoroughly
revised and updated edition includes many new or expanded features,
including:

* Illustrative examples drawn from the author's experience
consulting with more than 350 institutions

* A basic, no-frills assessment plan for departments and for
general education

* Tips on how to integrate portfolios and e-portfolios into the
assessment process

* Suggestions for using rubrics and alternatives to rubrics,
including doing assessment for multidisciplinary work

* Clear instructions on how to construct a coherent
institution-wide assessment system and explain it to
accreditors

* Ideas for assigning responsibility for general education
assessment

* Strategies for gathering information about departmental
assessment while keeping the departmental workload manageable

* Information on how to manage assessment in times of budgetary
cutbacks

Praise for the Second Edition of Assessment Clear and Simple

"Walvoord's approach to assessment is wonderfully
straightforward; it is also effective in facilitating faculty
engagement in assessment. We've applied a number of her methods to
our campus assessment efforts with success. This book makes
assessment both manageable and useful in improving and enhancing
student learning."--Martha L. A. Stassen, director of
assessment, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and president,
New England Educational Assessment Network (NEEAN)

"Walvoord's work clearly presents the basics for getting started
in assessment of student learning while honestly addressing the
complexities of assessment when driven by faculty passion for
student learning. This book is a valuable resource for the novice
as well as the developing experts who are leading their
institutions in academic assessment."--Bobbi Allen, faculty
assessment director, Delta College