Assessing Student Learning

THE ACCLAIMED, COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO STUDENT LEARNING ASSESSMENT, REVISED AND UPDATED

Now in its third edition, Assessing Student Learning 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.

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.

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.

Written both for those familiar with assessment and for those just getting started, Assessing Student Learning provides an essential guide to every aspect of the assessment process.