Enhancing Assessment in Higher Education - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1620363674 ISBN 13: 9781620363676

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

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Assessment and accountability are now inescapable features of the landscape of higher education, and ensuring that these assessments are psychometrically sound has become a high priority for accrediting agencies and therefore also for higher education institutions. Bringing together the higher education assessment literature with the psychometric literature, this book focuses on how to practice sound assessment.

This volume provides comprehensive and detailed descriptions of tools for and approaches to assessing student learning outcomes in higher education. 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.

The book is divided into three sections: overview, assessment in higher education, and case studies. The central section looks at direct and indirect measures of student learning, and how to assure the validity, reliability, and fairness of both types. The first six chapters (the first two sections) alternate chapters written by experts in assessment in higher education and experts in psychometrics. The remaining three chapters are applications of assessment practices in three higher education institutions. Finally, the book includes a glossary of key terms in the field.

About this title

About the Author:

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 numerous publication and is a recognized measurement expert, authoring the 11th edition of a widely used textbook in teacher education programs. Dr. Miller is also the recipient of numerous National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Education research grants.

Review:

This assessment volume is endorsed by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and the Association for Institutional Research (AIR)

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1620363674
• ISBN 13: 9781620363676
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: Cumming Tammie, Miller M. David