Building a Scholarship of Assessment

Preface ix

The Authors xiii

Part One: History and Current Status of Assessment 1

1 An Emerging Scholarship: A Brief History of Assessment 3
Peter T. Ewell

2 Promoting Academic Improvement: Organizational and Administrative Dynamics That Support Student Assessment 26
Marvin W. Peterson and Derek S. Vaughan

Part Two: Theoretical Foundations of Assessment 47

3 The Roots of Assessment: Tensions, Solutions, and Research Directions 49
Peter J. Gray

4 A Scholar-Practitioner Model for Assessment 67
T. Dary Erwin and Steven L. Wise

5 Enacting a Collaborative Scholarship of Assessment 82
Marcia Mentkowski and Georgine Loacker

6 The Scholarly Assessment of Student Development 100
George D. Kuh, Robert M. Gonyea, and Daisy P. Rodriguez

Part Three: Methods of Assessment 129

7 Measurement Issues in Outcomes Assessment 131
Gary R. Pike

8 Web Applications in Assessment 148
Mark D. Shermis and Kathryn E. Daniels

9 Information Support for Assessment 167
Victor M. H. Borden

Part Four: Scholarly Assessment 183

10 Engaging and Supporting Faculty in the Scholarship of Assessment: Guidelines from Research and Best Practice 185
Thomas Anthony Angelo

11 Scholarly Assessment of Student Learning in the Major and General Education 201
Catherine A. Palomba

12 Program Review: A Spectrum of Perspectives and Practices 223
Karen E. Black and Kimberly A. Kline

13 Accreditation and the Scholarship of Assessment 240
Barbara D. Wright

Part Five: Toward a Scholarship of Assessment 259

14 Characteristics of Effective Outcomes Assessment: Foundations and Examples 261
Trudy W. Banta

15 A Call for Transformation 284
Trudy W. Banta

References 293

Name Index 319

Subject Index 325