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The second edition of Assessment for Excellence arrives as higher education enters a new era of the accountability movement. In the face of mandates such as results-based funding and outcomes-based accreditation, institutions and assessment specialists are feeling increasingly pressured to demonstrate accountability to external constituencies. The practice of assessment under these new accountability pressures takes on special significance for the education of students and the development of talent across the entire higher education system. This book introduces a talent development approach to educational assessment as a counter to prevailing philosophies, illustrating how contemporary practices are unable to provide institutions with meaningful data with which to improve educational outcomes. It provides administrators, policymakers, researchers, and analysts with a comprehensive framework for developing new assessment programs to promote talent development and for scrutinizing existing policies and practices. Written for a wide audience, the book enables the lay reader to quickly grasp the imperatives of a properly-designed assessment program, and also to gain adequate statistical understanding necessary for examining current or planned assessment policies. More advanced readers will appreciate the technical appendix for assistance in conducting statistical analyses that align with a talent development approach. In addition, institutional researchers will benefit from sections that outline the development of appropriate student databases.

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• Preface(p. vii)
• 1 The Philosophy and Logic of Assessment(p. 1)
• 2 A Conceptual Model for Assessment(p. 17)
• 3 Assessing Outcomes(p. 41)
• 4 Assessing Student Inputs(p. 69)
• 5 Assessing the Environment(p. 87)
• 6 Analyzing Assessment Data(p. 101)
• 7 Use of Assessment Results(p. 139)
• 8 Building a Database(p. 163)
• 9 Assessment as Direct Feedback to the Learner(p. 195)
• 10 Assessment and Equity(p. 213)
• 11 Assessment and Public Policy(p. 235)
• 12 The Future of Assessment(p. 251)
• Appendix: Statistical Analysis of Longitudinal Data(p. 277)
• Notes(p. 337)
• References(p. 343)
• Index(p. 357)
• About the Authors(p. 367)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Alexander W. Astin is the Allan M. Cartter Distinguished Professor of Higher Education, Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the founding director of UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute.
Anthony Lising Antonio is associate professor of education and associate director of the Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research at Stanford University.