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Assessment Advice for Beginners

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2007

Kenneth J. Campbell
Kenneth J. Campbell
Affiliation:
University of Delaware
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There is a great deal of unnecessary confusion out there about assessment of student learning. The theories are inconsistent, the processes are overly complex, and the advice is contradictory. There are national assessment experts telling us what to do, discipline-specific assessment experts telling us what to do, and institution-based assessment experts telling us what to do. And they all seem to speak a different language. The one point on which they all seem to agree is that we have to begin doing it; no more stalling.For further information about simple, practical assessment, see Linda Suskie, Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide (Bolton, MA: Anker Publishing, 2004).

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THE PROFESSION SYMPOSIA
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 99
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© 2007 The American Political Science Association

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