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Author Shavelson, Richard J., 1942-

Title Measuring college learning responsibly : accountability in a new era / Richard J. Shavelson
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 238 pages)
Contents Assessment and accountability policy context -- Framework for assessing student learning -- Brief history of student learning assessment : déjà vu all over again -- The Collegiate Learning Assessment -- Exemplary campus learning assessment programs -- On the centrality of information in the demand for accountability -- Accountability : a delicate instrument -- State higher education accountability and learning assessment -- Higher education accountability outside the United States -- Learning assessment and accountability for American higher education
Summary Accrediting boards, the federal government, and state legislatures are now requiring a greater level of accountability from higher education. However, current accountability practices, including accreditation, No Child Left Behind, and performance reporting are inadequate to the task. If wielded indiscriminately, accountability can actually do more harm than good. This innovative work looks broadly at how accountability is being considered by campuses, accrediting boards, higher education organizations, and governments in the US and abroad. It explores how new demands for accountability and new technologies are changing the way student learning is assessed. The author, one of the most respected assessment researchers in the nation, provides a framework for assessing student learning and discusses historical and contemporary debates in the field. He details new directions in assessment, such as the Collegiate Learning Assessment he helped develop, analyzes exemplary campus assessment programs, and proposes considerations necessary for designing successful accountability systems
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-230) and index
Notes English
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Subject Universities and colleges -- United States -- Examinations.
Educational tests and measurements -- United States.
Educational accountability -- United States
Education, Higher -- United States -- Evaluation
STUDY AIDS -- College Entrance.
STUDY AIDS -- Advanced Placement.
STUDY AIDS -- TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)
Education, Higher -- Evaluation
Educational accountability
Educational tests and measurements
Universities and colleges
Schulleistungsmessung
Hochschule -- Evaluation -- USA.
Student -- Lernen -- USA.
Lernen -- Student -- USA.
Student -- Evaluation -- USA.
United States
USA
Genre/Form Examinations
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009019665
ISBN 9780804773515
0804773513
0804761205
9780804761208
0804761213
9780804761215