Promoting Integrated and Transformative Assessment: A Deeper Focus on Student Learning

Promoting Integrated and Transformative Assessment
Assessment plays a key role in institutions of higher education. However, many colleges and universities simply add their assessment plans onto other teaching, learning, service, and research activities in order to prepare for an impending accreditation visit. In this important resource, Catherine M. Wehlburg outlines an integrated and ongoing system for assessment that both prepares for an accreditation visit and truly enhances student learning. This innovative approach can be adapted for use in a wide variety of situations to transform a department or an entire institution.
Praise for Promoting Integrated and Transformative Assessment
"Outcomes assessment at its best has the power to transform programs and institutions. Wehlburg provides a detailed account of the kind of assessment that can truly be transformative."
—Trudy W. Banta, professor of higher education, senior advisor to the chancellor for academic planning and evaluation, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
"With today′s increasing calls for accountability, the higher education community has never needed more urgently Catherine Wehlburg′s focus on the true core purpose of assessment: enhancing student learning."
—Linda Suskie, vice president, Middle States Commission on Higher Education
"Wehlburg presents a compelling case for doing assessment so that it could and should make a difference in student learning."
—George D. Kuh, chancellor′s professor and director, Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research
"For a variety of internal and external reasons, all colleges and universities must start doing a better job, not only of collecting assessment data but of actually using it to improve student learning. As we work on this challenging task, Wehlburg′s Promoting Integrated and Transformative Assessment will clearly become the ′go–to′ book for figuring out how to do this in a meaningful, appropriate, and sustainable way."
—Dee Fink, author, Creating Significant Learning Experiences

Spis treści:
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
About the Author.
1. What Is Transformative Assessment?
2. Transformative Assessment: A Historical Perspective.
3. Institutional Dynamics: Using Organizational Structure and Campus Climate.
4. Encouraging Faculty Support for Transformative Assessment.
5. Transformative Assessment Across Student and Academic Affairs.
6. Aligning Institutional Mission with Assessment: Elements of a Meaningful Institutional Effectiveness Program.
7. Institutional Implementation of Transformative Assessment.
8. Embedding Transformative Assessment Activities Across the Institution.
9. Transformative Assessment as a Method to Support Ongoing Accreditation and Accountability.
10. The Future of Transformative Assessment in Higher Education.
References.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:

Catherine M. Wehlburg is executive director of the Office for Assessment and Quality Enhancement at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. She presents workshops on assessment, academic transformation, and teaching and learning.

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Promoting Integrated and Transformative Assessment
Assessment plays a key role in institutions of higher education. However, many colleges and universities simply add their assessment plans onto other teaching, learning, service, and research activities in order to prepare for an impending accreditation visit. In this important resource, Catherine M. Wehlburg outlines an integrated and ongoing system for assessment that both prepares for an accreditation visit and truly enhances student learning. This innovative approach can be adapted for use in a wide variety of situations to transform a department or an entire institution.
Praise for Promoting Integrated and Tr ansformative Assessment
"Outcomes assessment at its best has the power to transform programs and institutions. Wehlburg provides a detailed account of the kind of assessment that can truly be transformative."
—Trudy W. Banta, professor of higher education, senior advisor to the chancellor for academic planning and evaluation, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
"With today′s increasing calls for accountability, the higher education community has never needed more urgently Catherine Wehlburg′s focus on the true core purpose of assessment: enhancing student learning."
—Linda Suskie, vice president, Middle States Commission on Higher Education
"Wehlburg presents a compelling case for doing assessment so that it could and should make a difference in student learning."
—George D. Kuh, chancellor′s professor and director, Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research
"For a variety of internal and external reasons, all colleges and universities must start doing a better job, not only of collecting assessment data but of actually using it to improve student learning. As we work on this challenging task, Wehlburg′s Promoting Integrated and Transformative Assessment will clearly become the ′go–to′ book for figuring out how to do this in a meaningful, appropriate, and sustainable way."
—Dee Fink, author, Creating Significant Learning Experiences