Examining Differences in Student Writing Proficiency as a Function of Student...
Written communication remains an important learning objective for colleges and universities as more and more students enter the workforce without necessary writing skills and experiences. This...
View ArticleMeasuring Assessment Climate: A Developmental Perspective
Externally imposed assessment requirements in higher education call for documented attention to using assessment results for program improvement. Although this systematic process promises to lead to...
View ArticleDefinitions Matter: Investigating and Comparing Different Operationalizations...
Effective assessment practice requires clearly defining and operationalizing terminology. We illustrate the importance of this practice by focusing on academic “undermatching”—when students enroll in...
View ArticleAn Empirical Model of Culture of Assessment in Student Affairs
Student affairs, like all arms of academe, has taken up the mantle of assessing college student learning and development in their unique programs and experiences. Yet, cultures of assessment in student...
View ArticleDual Enrollment and Undergraduate Graduation Rates in the United States: An...
Previous studies have found that freshmen who enter college with dual enrollment credits earned during high school have higher 6-year graduation rates. Yet, we do not know if institutional graduation...
View ArticleWinter 2017 Issue Available
The contributions presented in this issue of Research & Practice in Assessment demonstrate important advancements in the practice and scholarship of assessment. The Winter 2017 issue of RPA...
View ArticleTwo Underused Best Practices for Improvement Focused Assessments
Planning the intended use of data and identification of bottlenecks are two best practices that faculty and administrators can use when they conduct assessments for the combined purposes of...
View ArticleThe Dependability of the Updated NSSE: A Generalizability Study
This study utilized generalizability theory to assess the context where the National Survey of Student Engagement’s (NSSE) summary measures, the Engagement Indicators, produce dependable group-level...
View ArticleFive Years of Video-Based Assessment Data: Lessons from a Teacher Education...
Teacher education programs are under considerable pressure to evaluate their effectiveness in training new teachers. Over the last several decades there have been repeated calls for more systematic...
View ArticleLearning Assessment in Student Affairs Through Service-Learning
This qualitative study examines how service-learning pedagogy can facilitate graduate students’ learning of assessment. Interviews with 14 students enrolled in a student affairs graduate program...
View ArticleContextualizing Effect Sizes in the National Survey of Student Engagement: An...
The concept of effect size plays a crucial role in assessment, institutional research, and scholarly inquiry, where it is common with large sample sizes to find small relationships that are...
View ArticleCategorizing College Students Based on Their Perceptions of Civic Engagement...
A common approach to assessing one facet of civic engagement (CE) is through administering the Cooperative Institutional Research Program’s (CIRP) social agency scale, which captures the extent to...
View ArticleExample of a Program-Level Learning Improvement Report
Few examples of demonstrable program learning improvement projects exist. To provide guidance for those seeking to report program learning improvement, we offer a real example of an implemented...
View ArticleWhy Assessment and Faculty Development Need Each Other: Notes on Using...
At institutions of higher education, assessment findings should inform decisions about where to target curricular improvements, course (re) design, academic support resources, and effective teaching...
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