Advancing Assessment for Student Success: Supporting Learning by Connecting Assessment With Teaching, Curriculum, and Cocurriculum and Cultivating Collaborations With Our Colleagues and Our Students

Amy Driscoll,Swarup Wood,Dan Shapiro,Nelson Graff

Advancing Assessment for Student Success: Supporting Learning by Connecting Assessment With Teaching, Curriculum, and Cocurriculum and Cultivating Collaborations With Our Colleagues and Our Students
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Stylus Publishing
Country
United States
Published
27 July 2021
Pages
250
ISBN
9781620368718

Advancing Assessment for Student Success: Supporting Learning by Connecting Assessment With Teaching, Curriculum, and Cocurriculum and Cultivating Collaborations With Our Colleagues and Our Students

Amy Driscoll,Swarup Wood,Dan Shapiro,Nelson Graff

This book is about student success and how to support and improve it. It takes as its point of departure that we–as faculty, assessment directors, student affairs professionals, and staff–reflect together in a purposeful and informed way about how our teaching, curricula, the co-curriculum, and assessment work in concert to support and improve student learning and success. It also requires that we do so in collaboration with our colleagues and our students for the rich insights that we gain from them.

Conversational in style, this book offers a wide variety of illustrations of how your peers are putting assessment into practice in ways that are meaningful to them and their institutions, and that lead to improved student learning. The authors provide rich guidance for activities ranging from everyday classroom teaching and assessment to using assessment to improve programs and entire institutions.

The authors envisage individual faculty at four-year institutions and community colleges as their main audience, whether those faculty are focused on their own classes or support their colleagues through leadership roles in assessment. If you plan to remain focused on your own courses and students, you will find that those sections of this book will help you better understand why and how assessment leaders do what they do, which in turn will make your participation in assessment more engaging and increase your expertise in facilitating student learning. Because the authors also aim to strengthen connections between the curriculum and co-curriculum and include examples of co-curricular assessment, student affairs professionals and staff interested in doing the same will also find ideas in this book relevant to their work.

Opening with a chapter on equity in assessment practice, so critical to learning from and benefitting our diverse students, the authors guide you through the development and use of learning outcomes, the design of assignments with attention to clear prompts and rubrics, and the achievement of alignment and coherence in pedagogy, curriculum, and assessment to better support student engagement, achievement and success. The chapter on using student evidence for improvement offers support, resources, and recommendations for doing so, and demonstrates exciting uses of student wisdom.

The book concludes by emphasizing the importance of reflection in assessment practices–offering powerful examples and strategies for professional development–and by describing appropriate, creative, and effective approaches for communicating assessment information with attention to purpose and audience.

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