Catherine A. Palomba

A collection offering educators information about assessment of student learning in professional fields and higher education. Offers ideas to those who would like to borrow concepts from other fields, and offers citations and real-life case studies to demonstrate claims.

The body of this volume describes how faculty in eight professionally oriented disciplines have developed and practiced assessment on their campuses and the lessons these faculty offer to colleagues in their own and other disciplines. The book also includes a chapter on the use of authentic assessment within several disciplines on a single university campus and another chapter about the British quality assurance movement. The final chapter reviews the current practice of assessment within show more the eight featured disciplines; the role accrediting bodies play in fostering assessment in these disciplines; and the lessons, issues, and challenges that are common across disciplines. show less

This seminal book documents the current practice of institutional assessment and provides suggestions for how to plan an assessment program, carry it out, and use its result to provide suggestions for academic improvement. Strategies for assessment include establishing learning goals and objectives, encouraging faculty and student involvement in assessment, selecting and designing instruments, and examples of different approaches to assessment.