Assessment Clear and Simple is "Assessment 101" in a book--a concise and step-by-step guide written for everyone who participates in the assessment process. This practical book helps to make assessment simple, cost-efficient, and useful to the institution, while at the same time meeting the requirements of accreditation agencies, legislatures, review boards, and others. Assessment Clear and Simple explores a variety of topics and shows how to:
- Build on assessment already in place
- Use classroom work and grading process
- Get faculty and department on board
- Assess hard to define goals such as moral and civic development
- Development workable learning goals
- Tailor assessment to its purposes
- Select sensible assessment measures
- Make criteria explicit
- Use assessment to improve learning
- Establish effective oversight without an assessment bureaucracy
- Write an assessment report
- Interpret the institution's culture to external audiences
