BOOKS FOR TEACHERS, ADMINISTRATORS, AND POLICYMAKERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Advancing Assessment for Student Success
Supporting Learning by Creating Connections Across Assessment, Teaching, Curriculum, and Cocurriculum in Collaboration With Our Colleagues and Our Students
- Publisher
Stylus Publishing - ISBN 9781620368718
- Language English
- Pages 250 pp.
- Size 6" x 9"
- Images 22 illustrations
- Publisher
Stylus Publishing - ISBN 9781620368701
- Language English
- Pages 250 pp.
- Size 6" x 9"
- Images 22 illustrations
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- Publisher
Stylus Publishing - ISBN 9781620368725
- Language English
- Pages 250 pp.
- Size 6" x 9"
- Images 22 illustrations
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Stylus Publishing - ISBN 9781620368732
- Language English
- Pages 250 pp.
- Size 6" x 9"
- Images 22 illustrations
This book is about student success and how to support and improve it. It takes as its point of departure that we--as faculty, assessment directors, student affairs professionals, and staff--reflect together in a purposeful and informed way about how our teaching, curricula, the co-curriculum, and assessment work in concert to support and improve student learning and success. It also requires that we do so in collaboration with our colleagues and our students for the rich insights that we gain from them.
Conversational in style, this book
offers a wide variety of illustrations of how your peers are putting assessment
into practice in ways that are meaningful to them and their institutions, and
that lead to improved student learning. The authors provide rich guidance for
activities ranging from everyday classroom teaching and assessment to using
assessment to improve programs and entire institutions.
The authors envisage individual faculty
at four-year institutions and community colleges as their main audience,
whether those faculty are focused on their own classes or support their
colleagues through leadership roles in assessment. If you plan to remain
focused on your own courses and students, you will find that those sections of
this book will help you better understand why and how assessment leaders do
what they do, which in turn will make your participation in assessment more
engaging and increase your expertise in facilitating student learning. Because
the authors also aim to strengthen connections between the curriculum and
co-curriculum and include examples of co-curricular assessment, student affairs
professionals and staff interested in doing the same will also find ideas in
this book relevant to their work.
Opening with a chapter on equity in
assessment practice, so critical to learning from and benefitting our diverse
students, the authors guide you through the development and use of learning
outcomes, the design of assignments with attention to clear prompts and
rubrics, and the achievement of alignment and coherence in pedagogy,
curriculum, and assessment to better support student engagement, achievement
and success. The chapter on using student evidence for improvement offers
support, resources, and recommendations for doing so, and demonstrates exciting
uses of student wisdom.
The book
concludes by emphasizing the importance of reflection in assessment
practices--offering powerful examples and strategies for professional
development--and by describing appropriate, creative, and effective approaches
for communicating assessment information with attention to purpose and
audience.
“A stark contrast to assessment processes that are aimed primarily at demonstrating fulfillment of externally established compliance standards, the authors’ learner-centered assessment process is aimed primarily at promoting individual students’ progress toward achieving course-, program-, and institution-level learning outcomes along their educational pathways, as well as engaging students in assuming agency for their learning. Written by seasoned educators who share a commitment to integrating assessment into the processes of teaching and learning that stretch across students’ studies, authors Amy Driscoll, Swarup Wood, Dan Shapiro, and Nelson Gaff provide readers principles, practices, processes, strategies, and campus scenarios and case studies that deepen and broaden a shared commitment to all learners’ success across the broad institutional system that contributes to their learning.
Most important, this book achieves what, I believe, has always been our challenge: to humanize assessment—to uncover the challenges our individual students face and then develop or identify interventions, strategies, or practices to assist each student persist and achieve along the trajectory of that individual’s educational pathways. Students represented in numbers or percentages on assessment reports do not humanize them nor do quantified data or band aid solutions reflect effective educators’ efforts to promote student success. I thus also call upon accreditors and other reporting entities focused on assuring our institutions advance all students to attain equitable outcomes to read this book to inform future assessment reporting guidelines or standards that provide institutions opportunities to document the realities that underlie their ongoing efforts to prepare current and future students who reflect our national demographics and who will shape our future.
This book should speak to and offer inspiration to so many in higher education, from faculty to faculty developers, student affairs professionals, and administrators.”
From the Foreword by Peggy L. Maki - Education Consultant Specializing in Assessing Student Learning
"Driscoll and her coauthors clearly get the vital need to prepare a cadre of assessment professionals for every sector of higher education, including for community colleges. Faculty know the old saying, “What gets assessed gets learned.” These authors know that how it gets assessed determines how it is learned. Accreditors will particularly appreciate these practical insights since sound, integrated assessment practices are foundational when an institution sets out to demonstrate mission accomplishment and program improvement."
Richard Winn, President (Retired) Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges - Western Association of Schools and Colleges
Foreword
Introduction
1) Advancing Assessment: Currents of Movement, Eddies, and New Paths—Amy
Driscoll
2) Equity in Assessment: Supports for all Students—Amy Driscoll
3) Learning Outcomes: Engaging Students, Staff, and Faculty—Swarup Wood
4) Aligned and Coherent Assessment, Pedagogy, and Curriculum: Connections for
Student Success—Amy Driscoll
5) Understanding and Supporting Achievement: Improving Assignment Prompts and
Rubrics—Nelson Graff
6) Using Evidence of Student Achievement: Advancing Student Success—Amy
Driscoll
7) Advancing Reflection: Fostering Conversations That Improve Student Success—Dan
Shapiro
8) Advancing Communication: Sharing Stories That Improve Student Success—Dan
Shapiro
About the Authors
Index
Amy Driscoll
Amy Driscoll retired from California State University, Monterey Bay as the founding Director of Teaching, Learning, and Assessment and from Portland State University as Director of Community/University Partnerships. For the last 11 years, she has coordinated and taught in the Assessment Leadership Academy, a year-long program for faculty and administrators, and consulted nationally and internationally. She co-authored Developing Outcomes-based Assessment for Learner-centered Education: A Faculty Introduction with Swarup Wood in 2007.
Swarup Wood
Swarup Wood is Professor of Chemistry and currently serves as Interim Director of General Education and Coordinator of First Year Seminar at California State University Monterey Bay where he has worked since 1997. He co-authored Developing Outcomes-based Assessment for Learner-centered Education: A Faculty Introduction with Amy Driscoll in 2007.
Dan Shapiro
Dan Shapiro currently serves as the Interim Associate Vice President for Academic Programs and Dean of University College and Graduate Studies at California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB). He has worked at CSUMB since 1997, beginning as a lecturer and a faculty associate in the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (TLA)--when Amy was the director. He started serving as director of TLA in 2014. He is a graduate of the WSCUC Assessment Leadership Academy (ALA, Cohort VII) and coordinates the ALA professional mentoring program.
Nelson Graff
Nelson Graff currently serves as Professor and Director of Communication Across the Disciplines, teaching first-year reading/writing and supporting faculty around CSUMB in teaching reading and writing in their classes. Before that, he was an associate professor of English Education at San Francisco State University, preparing future secondary English teachers.