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This book examines current practices in assessment of learning and accountability at a time when accrediting boards, the federal government and state legislatures are requiring higher education to account for such outcomes as student retention, graduation, and learning.
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"Shavelson provides an interesting overview of the increasing pressure placed on US higher education to provide information on quality, comparability and accountability." (Bernard Longden Liverpool Hope University, Higher Education)
"This timely book provides practical insights into the emergence of assessment and student learning as well as the accountability of institutions of higher education. As Shavelson reveals, assessment of learning and teaching effectiveness is not always aligned with the external purposes and goals of stakeholders." (Henrik Minassians, California State University Northridge)
"No other work is willing to take on the important issue of the measurement of learning at the college level. Our current accountability measures are overused and often inadequate, but Shavelson provides a direction for assuring successful means of assessing higher education in the future." (Frances Stage New York University)
"Richard Shavelson's Measuring College Learning Responsibility: Accountability in a New Era is timely and provocative, given the recent debate in higher education regarding the measure of learning. . . Shavelson's valuable work takes us to a new level of assessment for higher education: arguing for a reconfiguration of what we call learning. His view is more academic, more complex, and more nuanced than any of its assessment predecessors. The CLA measures cognitive abilities, knowledge and skills associated with particular college majors, and broad competence in individual and social responsibility. While being careful to give us the psychometrics of this instrument, the book is also compelling and readable for those with general interest. However, it should be required reading for higher education scholars, policymakers, administrators who are charged with assessment, and officers of accrediting agencies." (Frances K. Stage Review of Higher Education)
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"This timely book provides practical insights into the emergence of assessment and student learning as well as the accountability of institutions of higher education. As Shavelson reveals, assessment of learning and teaching effectiveness is not always aligned with the external purposes and goals of stakeholders." (Henrik Minassians, California State University Northridge)
"No other work is willing to take on the important issue of the measurement of learning at the college level. Our current accountability measures are overused and often inadequate, but Shavelson provides a direction for assuring successful means of assessing higher education in the future." (Frances Stage New York University)
"Richard Shavelson's Measuring College Learning Responsibility: Accountability in a New Era is timely and provocative, given the recent debate in higher education regarding the measure of learning. . . Shavelson's valuable work takes us to a new level of assessment for higher education: arguing for a reconfiguration of what we call learning. His view is more academic, more complex, and more nuanced than any of its assessment predecessors. The CLA measures cognitive abilities, knowledge and skills associated with particular college majors, and broad competence in individual and social responsibility. While being careful to give us the psychometrics of this instrument, the book is also compelling and readable for those with general interest. However, it should be required reading for higher education scholars, policymakers, administrators who are charged with assessment, and officers of accrediting agencies." (Frances K. Stage Review of Higher Education)
Richard J. Shavelson is the Margaret Jacks Professor of Education, Professor of Psychology, and former Dean of the School of Education at Stanford University. He is the coauthor of Scientific Research in Education (2002), with Lisa Towne and Generalizability Theory: A Primer (1991), with Noreen Webb, among other books, articles, and policy reports.
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- ISBN 10 0804773513
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