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Summary
Summary
Making a Difference presents a comprehensive account of the best practices and lessons learned in outcomes assessment. The book brings together detailed first-person accounts by the most successful practitioners in the field to show how assessment findings have been used to improve programs, student services, and student learning.
Author Notes
TRUDY W. BANTA is vice-chancellor for planning and institutional improvement and professor of higher education at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Banta was previously director of the Center for Assessment Research and Development at the University of Tennesee, Knoxville (UTK), where she coordinated the UTK outcomes assessment program, one of the largest and most comprehensive programs of its kind in the country.
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Choice Review
Probably few topics related to educational reform have received more attention in the last decade than assessment. It is, however, a topic much more talked about than acted upon. This edited work deals with the many dimensions of assessment in higher education by providing examples of the approaches that various leaders at a variety of institutions have taken to evaluate the quality of the educational experience. The most thorough coverage includes the assessment of student learning, of college and university curricula, of higher education programs, and of total institutional progress. The different chapters deal with each of these in a variety of institutional settings with particular emphasis on nontraditonal, frequently nonquantitative, assessment techniques. Although there is not a great deal of candor about the limitations of portfolio assessment, this is an excellent handbook for one searching for a description of the state-of-the-art in higher education assessment. Recommended. General; advanced undergraduates and up. D. E. Tanner; California State University, Fresno
