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Cultural Competence in Higher Education
This book covers teaching cultural competence in colleges and universities across the United States, providing a comprehensive reference for instructors, researchers, and other stakeholders who are looking for material that will assist them in working to prepare students to become culturally competent.
Trends in Assessment
Trends in Assessment provides readers with a survey of the state-of-the-art of the enduring assessment concepts and approaches developed over the past twenty-five years, and includes chapters by acknowledged experts who describe how emerging assessment trends and ideas apply to their programs and pedagogies, covering: Community Engagement ePortfolios Faculty Development Global Learning Graduate and Professional Education High-Impact Practices Learning Improvement and Innovation Assessment Trends from NILOA STEM Student Affairs Programs and Services The concluding chapters point to a future of assessment and identify several meta-trends in assessment. The book was conceived by organizers and ...
A Practitioner's Guide to Public Archaeology
Many archaeologists learn by trial and error while developing public programs and events and are mostly unaware that others in the profession are undergoing the same challenges. Archaeologists seldom receive professional development on K-12 pedagogy, public engagement, program design, or assessment. For many in the field, public outreach is often an under-funded and under-resourced extension of an already overwhelming workload; yet this work is incredibly important. In A Practitioner's Guide to Public Archaeology: Intentional Programming for Effective Outreach, more than thirty public archaeology practitioners will help you reduce the guesswork and stress behind program planning in this enga...
Improving Quality in American Higher Education
An ambitious, comprehensive reimagining of 21st century higher education Improving Quality in American Higher Education outlines the fundamental concepts and competencies society demands from today's college graduates, and provides a vision of the future for students, faculty, and administrators. Based on a national, multidisciplinary effort to define and measure learning outcomes—the Measuring College Learning project—this book identifies 'essential concepts and competencies' for six disciplines. These essential concepts and competencies represent efforts towards articulating a consensus among faculty in biology, business, communication, economics, history, and sociology—disciplines t...
Reframing Assessment to Center Equity
This book makes the case for assessment of student learning as a vehicle for equity in higher education. The book proceeds through a framework of “why, what, how, and now what.” The opening chapters present the case for infusing equity into assessment, arguing that assessment professionals can and should be activists in advancing equity, given the historic and systemic use of assessment as an impediment to the educational access and attainment of historically marginalized populations. The “what” chapters offer definitions of emerging terms, discuss the narratives of equity in evidence of student learning, present models and approaches to promoting equity, and explore the relationship...
Student-Focused Learning and Assessment
Setting the Stage - Natasha A. Jankowski/Gianina R. Baker: Introduction - Natasha A. Jankowski/Emily Teitelbaum: Student Perceptions of and Involvement with Assessment in Higher Education - Nicholas A. Curtis/Robin D. Anderson/Sally Brown: Student-Faculty Partnership: A New Paradigm for Assessing and Improving Student Learning - Assessment in Practice - Samantha S. Gizerian/Elizabeth A. Carney: Giving Students a Voice in Assessment through Focus Groups - Rebecca C. Hong: Student Assessment Scholars: Cultivating and Empowering Student Voice in Assessment - Luke Millard/Jamie Morris/Samuel Geary/Stuart Brand: Enabling Student-led Design of the Learning Experience - Reflecting on Practice - Karie C. Brown-Tess: Designing a Co-Created Course: A Case Study of an Undergraduate Mathematics Teacher-Education Class - Tyrone Martinez-Black: Reviving a Lost Opportunity - Aurora Berger: Elevating Creative Thinking - Future Directions - Erick Montenegro: Focus on Students and Equity in Assessment to Improve Learning - Gianina R. Baker/Natasha A. Jankowski: Future Directions of Student-Focused Learning and Assessment - About the Contributors - Index.
