Handbook on measurement, assessment, and evaluation in higher education
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Handbook on measurement, assessment, and evaluation in higher education
Routledge, 2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Increased demands for colleges and universities to engage in outcomes assessment for accountability purposes have accelerated the need to bridge the gap between higher education practice and the fields of measurement, assessment, and evaluation. The Handbook on Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation in Higher Education provides higher education administrators, student affairs personnel, institutional researchers who generate and analyze data, and faculty with an integrated handbook of theory, method, and application. This valuable resource brings together applied terminology, analytical perspectives, and methodological advances from the fields of measurement, assessment, and evaluation to facilitate informed decision-making in higher education.
Special Features:
Contributing Authors are world-renowned scholars across the fields of measurement, assessment, and evaluation, including: Robert E. Stake, Trudy W. Banta, Michael J. Kolen, Noreen M. Webb, Kurt Geisinger, Robert J. Mislevy, Ronald K. Hambleton, Rebecca Zwick, John Creswell, and Margaret D. LeCompte.
Depth of Coverage includes classroom assessment and student outcomes; assessment techniques for accountability and accreditation; test theory, item response theory, validity and reliability; qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods evaluation; context and ethics of assessment.
Questions and Exercises follow each Section to reinforce the valuable concepts and insights presented in the preceding chapters.
Bridging the gap between practice in higher education with advances in measurement, assessment, and evaluation, this book enables educational decision-makers to engage in more sound professional judgment. This handbook provides higher education administrators with both high-level and detailed views into contemporary theories and practices, supplemented with guidance on how to apply them for the benefit of students and institutions.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword, Edward J. Yaw
Preface: Improving Institutional Decision-Making Through Educational Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation, Charles Secolsky and D. Brian Denison
Acknowledgements
Section 1 Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education
Introduction to Section 1, Charles Secolsky and D. Brian Denison
1. Assessing the Quality of a University-Particularly its Teaching, Robert E. Stake, Gloria Contreras, and Isabel Arbesu
2. Classroom-Level Assessment: Aligning Pedagogical Practices to Enhance Student Learning, Kathryne Drezek McConnell and Peter E. Doolittle
3. Student Learning Outcomes Assessment at the Program and Institutional Levels, Thomas Judd and Bruce Keith
4. The Bottom Line: Will Faculty USE Assessment Findings?, Trudy W. Banta and Gary R. Pike
5. The Perennial Challenges of Accountability, James C. Palmer
6. Using National, State, and Local Data for Administrative Decision-Making, Sathasivam `Kris' Krishnan, Chengbo Yin, William Mahler, Albertha Lawson, Michael Harris, and Karen Ruedinger
7. Empowerment Evaluation and Accreditation Case Examples: California Institute of Integral Studies and Stanford University, David Fetterman
8. Benchmarking in Higher Education, Jeffrey Seybert, Ellen Weed, and Trudy Bers
Questions and Exercises for Section 1
Section 2 Theories and Technical Aspects of Educational Measurement
Introduction to Section 2, Charles Secolsky and D. Brian Denison
9. Classical Test Theory and Higher Education: Five Questions, Elizabeth Schaughency, Jeffrey Smith, Jacques van der Meer, and David Berg
10. Generalizability Theory in Assessment Contexts, Noreen M. Webb, Richard Shavelson, and Jeffrey Steedle
11. Item Response Theory in Measurement, Assessment, And Evaluation for Higher Education, Steven J. Osterlind and Ze Wang
12. Scaling, Norming, and Equating, Michael J. Kolen and Amy B. Hendrickson
13. Reliability, Bruce Thompson and Tammi Vacha-Haase
14. The Validation of Tests in Higher Education, Kurt Geisinger, Leslie H. Shaw, and Carina McCormick
15. Statistical Modeling in Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation for Higher Education, Steven J. Osterlind and Ze Wang
16. Issues in the Analysis of Change, D. Betsy McCoach, Karen Rambo, and Megan Welsh
Questions and Exercises for Section 2
Section 3 Test Construction and Development
Introduction to Section 3, Louise Yarnall
17. Building Content and Statistical Test Specifications, Tawnya Knupp and Deborah Harris
18. Evidence-Centered Design in Assessment Development, Geneva Haertel, Ellen Wentland, Louise Yarnall, and Robert J. Mislevy
19. The Assessment of 21st-Century Skills in Community College Career and Technician Education Programs, Louise Yarnall and Jane Ostrander
20. Item Analysis Procedures for Classroom Assessments in Higher Education, Jerome C. Clauser and Ronald K. Hambleton
21. Using Content Specialists for Detecting Item and Test Unfairness, Sydell Carlton
22. Computer-Based Testing in Higher Education, Robert Dolan and Kelly Burling
Questions and Exercises for Section 3
Section 4 Testing and Assessment for Decision-Making
Introduction to Section 4, Charles Secolsky and D. Brian Denison
23. Setting and Validating Cut Scores for Tests, Mary J. Pitoniak and Deanna L. Morgan
24. College Placement Testing of Entering Students, Deanna L. Morgan
25. Admissions Testing in Higher Education, Rebecca Zwick
26. Postsecondary Writing Assessment, Peggy O'Neill and Sandra Murphy
27. Authentic Assessment Validation: A Heuristic Rubrics Cube, Jion Liou Yen and Kevin Hynes
28. Cognitive Diagnostic Method: Rule Space, Q-Matrix Theory and Applications, Kikumi Tatsuoka, Anthony E. Kelly, Curtis Tatsuoka, and Michael Dean
Questions and Excercises for Section 4
Section 5 Approaches to Evaluation in Higher Education
Introduction to Section 5, Thomas E. Grayson
29. Program Evaluation in Higher Education, Thomas E. Grayson
30. Qualitative Evaluation, Christopher Pondish
31. Naturalistic Evaluation, David A. Erlandson
32. Responsive Evaluation, Kelly Godfrey and Doreen B. Finkelstein
33. Case Studies and Validity, Edith Cisneros-Cohernour
34. Mixed Methods Specialists in Action: Linking Mixed Methods Research to Learning and Classroom Assessment, Delwyn Harnisch, John Creswell, and Timothy Guetterman
35. Survey Use in Academic Contexts: Considerations and Guidelines, Ellen Wentland
Questions and Exercises for Section 5
Section 6 Issues in Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education
Introduction to Section 6, April L. Zenisky
36. Using Data to Find Common Ground Between Secondary and Postsecondary Accommodations for Students with Disabilities, Manju Banerjee and Martha L. Thurlow
37. Testing and Evaluation of English-Language Learners in Higher Education, Young Yee Kim, James Hart, Jamal Abedi, and Alan Vanneman
38. Evaluation of Teacher Quality, Stephanie L. Knight
39. Reporting Assessment Results in Higher Education, April L. Zenisky and Jerold S. Laguilles
40. Presenting Learning Outcomes Assessment Results to Foster Use, Staci J. Provezis and Natasha A. Jankowski
41. Revisiting Reliability and Validity in Higher Education Research and Program Evaluation, Margaret D. LeCompte and Dorothy Aguilera-Black Bear
42. Ethical Assessment and Institutional Advancement: Connecting Good Practice with the Need to Move Campuses Forward, Ashley Finley
Questions and Exercises for Section 6
Concluding Remarks, Charles Secolsky and D. Brian Denison
About the Contributors
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