Book description
What does college teach, really? As demands for accountability
intensify, meaningful measurement of broad college outcomes becomes
increasingly important. Here, you'll take a journey through the history
of assessment instruments, starting with the creation of the first
general outcomes assessment tools in the 1980s. You'll follow the
evolution of the tools, writing and critical thinking, and finally the
concept of value-added analysis, an appealing but elusive goal for
assessors.
Gary R. Pike
, Executive Director of information management and institutional
research at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolisis, is a
consulting editor for Assessment Update
.
