E-grāmata: Advancing Assessment for Student Success: Supporting Learning by Creating Connections Across Assessment, Teaching, Curriculum, and Cocurriculum in Collaboration With Our Colleagues and Our Students [Taylor & Francis e-book]

This book is about student success andhow to support and improve it. It takes as its point of departure that we--asfaculty, assessment directors, student affairs professionals, andstaff--reflect together in a purposeful and informed way about how our teaching,curricula, the co-curriculum, and assessment work in concert to support andimprove student learning and success. Italso requires that we do so in collaboration with our colleagues and ourstudents for the rich insights that we gain from them.

Conversational in style, this bookoffers a wide variety of illustrations of how your peers are putting assessmentinto practice in ways that are meaningful to them and their institutions, andthat lead to improved student learning. The authors provide rich guidance foractivities ranging from everyday classroom teaching and assessment to usingassessment to improve programs and entire institutions.

The authors envisage individual facultyat four-year institutions and community colleges as their main audience,whether those faculty are focused on their own classes or support theircolleagues through leadership roles in assessment. If you plan to remainfocused on your own courses and students, you will find that those sections ofthis book will help you better understand why and how assessment leaders dowhat they do, which in turn will make your participation in assessment moreengaging and increase your expertise in facilitating student learning. Becausethe authors also aim to strengthen connections between the curriculum andco-curriculum and include examples of co-curricular assessment, student affairsprofessionals and staff interested in doing the same will also find ideas inthis book relevant to their work.

Opening with a chapter on equity inassessment practice, so critical to learning from and benefitting our diversestudents, the authors guide you through the development and use of learningoutcomes, the design of assignments with attention to clear prompts andrubrics, and the achievement of alignment and coherence in pedagogy,curriculum, and assessment to better support student engagement, achievementand success. The chapter on using student evidence for improvement offerssupport, resources, and recommendations for doing so, and demonstrates excitinguses of student wisdom.

The bookconcludes by emphasizing the importance of reflection in assessmentpractices--offering powerful examples and strategies for professionaldevelopment--and by describing appropriate, creative, and effective approachesfor communicating assessment information with attention to purpose andaudience.