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<p>List of Tables vii</p> <p>List of Lists ix</p> <p>List of Figure xiii</p> <p>List of Exhibits xv</p> <p>Preface to the Third Edition xix</p> <p>Introduction 1</p> <p><b>Part 1 Understanding Assessment</b></p> <p>Chapter 1 What Is Assessment? 7</p> <p>Chapter 2 The Many Settings for Student Learning and Assessment 15</p> <p>Chapter 3 What Are Effective Assessment Practices? 23</p> <p><b>Part 2 Laying a Foundation for Assessment Success</b></p> <p>Chapter 4 Learning Goals: Articulating What You Most Want Students to Learn 39</p> <p>Chapter 5 Designing Curricula to Help Students Learn What’s Important 63</p> <p>Chapter 6 How Will Your Evidence of Student Learning be Used? 85</p> <p>Chapter 7 Planning Assessments in Academic Programs 93</p> <p>Chapter 8 Planning Assessments in General Education, Co-curricula, and Other Settings 105</p> <p><b>Part 3 Building a Pervasive, Enduring Culture of Evidence and Betterment</b></p> <p>Chapter 9 Guiding and Coordinating Assessment Efforts 117</p> <p>Chapter 10 Helping Everyone Learn What to Do 127</p> <p>Chapter 11 Supporting Assessment Efforts 139</p> <p>Chapter 12 Keeping Assessment Cost-Effective 149</p> <p>Chapter 13 Collaborating on Assessment 165</p> <p>Chapter 14 Valuing Assessment and the People Who Contribute 175</p> <p><b>Part 4 The Assessment Toolbox</b></p> <p>Chapter 15 Designing Rubrics to Plan and Assess Assignments 189</p> <p>Chapter 16 Creating Effective Assignments 205</p> <p>Chapter 17 Writing Multiple-Choice and Other Objective Tests 215</p> <p>Chapter 18 Assembling Evidence of Student Learning into Portfolios 235</p> <p>Chapter 19 Selecting Published Instruments 245</p> <p>Chapter 20 Other Assessment Tools 259</p> <p>Chapter 21 Assessing the Hard-to-Assess 273</p> <p><b>Part 5 Understanding and Using Evidence of Student Learning</b></p> <p>Chapter 22 Setting Meaningful Standards and Targets 287</p> <p>Chapter 23 Summarizing and Storing Evidence of Student Learning 305</p> <p>Chapter 24 Analyzing Evidence of Student Learning 319</p> <p>Chapter 25 Sharing Evidence of Student Learning 333</p> <p>Chapter 26 Using Evidence of Student Learning to Inform</p> <p>Important Decisions 355</p> <p>References 367</p> <p>Index 377</p>

<p><b>LINDA SUSKIE</b> is an internationally recognized writer, speaker, trainer, and consultant on assessment in higher education. Her previous positions included serving as Vice President at the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, Associate Vice President for Assessment and Institutional Research at Towson University, and Director of the Assessment Forum of the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE).

<p><b>THE ACCLAIMED, COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO STUDENT LEARNING ASSESSMENT, REVISED AND UPDATED</b> <p>Now in its third edition, <i>Assessing Student Learning</i> continues to offer college faculty and administrators an accessible and authoritative guide for assessing student learning in a variety of higher education settings. Linda Suskie—an internationally recognized expert—presents a wealth of well-informed principles as well as flexible, adaptable options. This book is a time-tested, straightforward guide filled with practical advice that can help meet ever-increasing needs for ensuring and demonstrating educational quality, stewardship, and accountability. <p>Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition highlights the latest thinking on student learning assessment. This edition now offers guidance on how to assess student learning in targeted settings such as: the classroom, general education curricula, undergraduate and graduate programs, and co-curricular and student development programs. It also reviews current research on rubrics and offers new chapters on curriculum design and on assessing the hard-to-assess. <p>In addition, the third edition offers greatly expanded suggestions for building a meaningful, pervasive, and cost-effective culture of assessment, and it presents a broader variety of strategies to help guide and coordinate successful assessment efforts. The third edition also offers fresh ideas on setting standards and targets for student performance and on how to summarize, analyze, share, and use evidence of student learning. <p>Written both for those familiar with assessment and for those just getting started, <i>Assessing Student Learning</i> provides an essential guide to every aspect of the assessment process.

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