320 pages
152 x 22 mm
ISBN - 10: 1 57922 034 7
ISBN-13: 978 1 57922 034 1
Pub date: July 2001
Published by Stylus Publishing, LLC

Specialized accrediting bodies stand at the forefront of the assessment movement and exert important influences on program and institutional assessment and improvement. The academic programs these bodies approve are frequently among the first on a campus to consider ways to assess student competence. This book presents case studies that describe how faculty in eight professionally oriented disciplines have developed and practiced assessment on their campuses and the lessons these faculty offer to colleagues in their own and other disciplines.
Contents:
Assessing Competence in Higher Education, Trudy W. Banta
Implementing Effective Assessment, Catherine A. Palomba
Assessing Student Competence in Teacher Education Programs, Mary E. Diez, Alverno College
Redefining a Profession: Assessment in Pharmacy Education, Thomas D. Zlatic, St. Louis College of Pharmacy
Assessment of Student Learning in the Discipline of Nursing, Donna L. Boland and Juanita Laidig, Indiana University
Accountability for Professional Practice: Assessment in Social Work Education, Frank R. Baskind, Virginia Commonwealth University, Barbara W. Shank, College of St. Catherine/University of St. Thomas, and Elaine K. Ferraro, Columbia College
Assessing Student Competence in Business, Neil A. Palomba and Catherine A. Palomba, Ball State University
Assessment of Student Competence in Computer Science, Gordon E. Stokes, Brigham Young University
Engineering, John A. Muffo, Virginia Polytechnic and State University
Visual Arts, Kristi Nelson, University of Cincinnati
Accredited Programs and Authentic Assessment, Douglas J. Eder, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and Hamilton College
The British Experience in Assessing Competence, Lee Harvey, University of Central England
Assessment Experiences in Accredited Disciplines, Catherine A. Palomba
Reviews:
"Offers lessons that should be useful to <Actinic:Variable Name = 'all'/> campuses and disciplines. Useful to accreditors as well as program or institutional educators." - ASPA News
"Enormously useful, both to educators in a given field who want to know what their own accreditors and colleagues are doing about assessment, and to those who want to look over the fence and borrow ideas from other fields. The citations and real-life case studies alone are worth the price of admission." - Barbara D. Wright, University of Connecticut
Authors: Catherine A. Palomba is director, Offices of Academic Assessment and Institutional Research, at Ball State University, and a 1998 recipient of the Best Practice in Assessing Learning Outcomes award from the American Productivity and Quality Center. She is co-author of Assessment Essentials.
Trudy W. Banta is professor of higher education and vice chancellor for planning and institutional improvement at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She is co-author of Assessment Essentials and Making a Difference, and founding editor of the bi-monthly Assessment Update.