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Author : Peter T. Ewell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982785089
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)
Download or read book The Lumina Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP) written by Peter T. Ewell and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Natasha A. Jankowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Using the Degree Qualifications Profile to Foster Meaningful Change written by Natasha A. Jankowski and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examples from the field indicates that effectively using the Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP) can benefit both students and institutions (Jankowski & Giffin, 2016). But what does "effective use" entail and how does it unfold? That is, what is the nature of the process that makes it possible for institutions to use the DQP to achieve desired ends? In a post-convening survey of participants following the October 2014 launch of the revised DQP, 91% of participants agreed or strongly agreed with Lumina's call for widespread implementation of DQP, but only 5% agreed that they understood the next steps in order to implement it. With this in mind, the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) has been tracking campus engagement with the DQP, identifying approaches that institutions have used to implement the framework in meaningful ways. In this report, we describe those approaches and how they have been used within and across institutions.
Author : Natasha A. Jankowski
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119240646
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)
Download or read book Partners in Advancing Student Learning: Degree Qualifications Profile and Tuning written by Natasha A. Jankowski and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focused on improving student learning, the Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP) and related Tuning process work together to inform curricular design, classroom assignments, and approaches to assessment. Covering the current field and drawing on numerous examples to illustrate the implications and challenges for IR professionals, this volume provides: an overview of the work, discussions outlining what the DQP and Tuning are, how IR has been involved, and what the future might hold for IR in these efforts. This is the 165th volume of this Jossey-Bass quarterly report series. Timely and comprehensive, New Directions for Institutional Research provides planners and administrators in all types of academic institutions with guidelines in such areas as resource coordination, information analysis, program evaluation, and institutional management.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (699 download)
Download or read book The Degree Qualifications Profile written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brendan Cantwell
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786435020
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Handbook on the Politics of Higher Education written by Brendan Cantwell and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the politics of Higher Education is becoming more important as the sector is increasingly recognised as a vital source of innovation, skills, economic prosperity, and personal wellbeing. Yet key political differences remain over such issues as who should pay for higher education, how should it be accountable, and how we measure its quality and productivity. Particularly, are states or markets the key in helping to address such matters. The Handbook provides framing perspectives and perspectives, chapters on funding, governance and regulation, and pieces on the political economy of higher education and on the increased role of external stakeholders and indicators.
Author : Charles Secolsky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317485548
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Handbook on Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation in Higher Education written by Charles Secolsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this valuable resource, well-known scholars present a detailed understanding of contemporary theories and practices in the fields of measurement, assessment, and evaluation, with guidance on how to apply these ideas for the benefit of students and institutions. Bringing together terminology, analytical perspectives, and methodological advances, this second edition facilitates informed decision-making while connecting the latest thinking in these methodological areas with actual practice in higher education. This research handbook provides higher education administrators, student affairs personnel, institutional researchers, and faculty with an integrated volume of theory, method, and application.
Author : Cliff Adelman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Degree Qualifications Profile written by Cliff Adelman and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in January 2011 as the beta Degree Qualifications Profile (see ED515302), the DQP has proved its usefulness to higher education institutions and associations from coast to coast. More than 400 colleges and universities have used the DQP. Its applications have been as diverse as the variety of missions of higher education. Though this formal release of the DQP reflects much that has been learned through experience with the earlier beta version, this document is more an enhancement than a revision. The fundamental strength of the DQP --succinct, active definitions of what degree recipients should know and be able to do at each degree level--remains unchanged. Those engaged in implementation or adaptation of the DQP may be confident that its structure and contents have not been substantially altered. What has changed since the beta version of the DQP was issued in 2011? Informed by significant feedback from the field, this edition includes new proficiencies addressing ethical reasoning and global learning, strengthened statements on quantitative reasoning, and more explicit attention to research. It now highlights analytical and cooperative approaches to learning that transcend specific fields of study. It provides guidance on integrating the development of students' intellectual skills with their broad, specialized, applied, and civic learning. And, in response to explicit requests from the field, it points to resources that support the assessment of DQP proficiencies. This edition of the DQP thus builds on the success of its beta edition--to offer an even more useful, flexible and practical guide for what college graduates should know and be able to do when awarded the associate, bachelor's or master's degree. Future editions of the DQP will be published on a regular basis, as revisions are called for by the field, but the goal of the DQP throughout future editions will continue unchanged--to be a useful, flexible, and practical tool to define postsecondary degrees in the U.S. through the demonstration and documentation of student learning, regardless of the student's field of study. The following are appended: (1) Why "proficiency"?; (2) The DQP and Tuning; (3) More on assignments and assessment; (4) Examples of DQP use; (5) Definitions of key DQP terms; (6) Questions and concerns; and (7) Sources consulted.
Author : Natasha A. Jankowski
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000979954
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Degrees That Matter written by Natasha A. Jankowski and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sponsored by Concerned by ongoing debates about higher education that talk past one another, the authors of this book show how to move beyond these and other obstacles to improve the student learning experience and further successful college outcomes. Offering an alternative to the culture of compliance in assessment and accreditation, they propose a different approach which they call the Learning System Paradigm. Building on the shift in focus from teaching to learning, the new paradigm encourages faculty and staff to systematically seek out information on how well students are learning and how well various areas of the institution are supporting the student experience and to use that information to create more coherent and explicit learning experiences for students.The authors begin by surveying the crowded terrain of reform in higher education and proceed from there to explore the emergence of this alternative paradigm that brings all these efforts together in a coherent way. The Learning System Paradigm presented in chapter two includes four key elements—consensus, alignment, student-centeredness, and communication. Chapter three focuses upon developing an encompassing notion of alignment that enables faculty, staff, and administrators to reshape institutional practice in ways that promote synergistic, integrative learning. Chapters four and five turn to practice, exploring the application of the paradigm to the work of curriculum mapping and assignment design. Chapter six focuses upon barriers to the work and presents ways to start and options for moving around barriers, and the final chapter explores ongoing implications of the new paradigm, offering strategies for communicating the impact of alignment on student learning.The book draws upon two recent initiatives in the United States: the Tuning process, adapted from a European approach to breaking down siloes in the European Union educational space; and the Degree Qualifications Profile (DQP), a document that identifies and describes core areas of learning that are common to institutions in the US. Many of the examples are drawn from site visit reports, self-reported activities, workshops, and project experience collected by the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) between 2010 and 2016. In that six-year window, NILOA witnessed the use of Tuning and/or the DQP in hundreds of institutions across the nation.
Author : Laurie Dodge
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000978575
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book A Leader's Guide to Competency-Based Education written by Laurie Dodge and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As interest in competency-based education (CBE) continues to grow by leaps and bounds, the need for a practical resource to guide development of high-quality CBE programs led the authors to write this book. Until now, there has been no how-to manual that captures in one place a big picture view of CBE along with the down-to-earth means for building a CBE program.A variety of pressures are driving the growth in CBE, including the need for alternatives to the current model of higher education (with its dismal completion rates); the potential to better manage the iron triangle of costs, access, and quality; the need for graduates to be better prepared for the workforce; and the demands of adult learners for programs with the flexible time and personalized learning that CBE offers.Designed to help institutional leaders become more competent in designing, building, and scaling high-quality competency-based education (CBE) programs, this book provides context, guidelines, and process. The process is based on ten design elements that emerged from research funded by the Gates Foundation, and sponsored by AAC&U, ACE, EDUCAUSE, and the Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN), with thought partners CAEL and Quality Matters. In short, the book will serve administrators, higher education leaders, faculty, staff, and others who have an interest in CBE by:• Giving context to enable the audience to discover the importance of each design element and to help frame the CBE program (the “why”);• Providing models, checklists, and considerations to determine the “what” component for each design element;• Sharing outlines and templates for the design elements to enable institutions to build quality, relevant, and rigorous CBE programs (the “how”).
Author : Derek Bok
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691206619
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Higher Expectations written by Derek Bok and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How our colleges and universities can respond to the changing hopes and needs of society In recent decades, cognitive psychologists have cast new light on human development and given colleges new possibilities for helping students acquire skills and qualities that will enhance their lives and increase their contributions to society. In this landmark book, Derek Bok explores how colleges can reap the benefits of these discoveries and create a more robust undergraduate curriculum for the twenty-first century. Prior to this century, most psychologists thought that creativity, empathy, resilience, conscientiousness, and most personality traits were largely fixed by early childhood. What researchers have now discovered is that virtually all of these qualities continue to change through early adulthood and often well beyond. Such findings suggest that educators may be able to do much more than was previously thought possible to teach students to develop these important characteristics and thereby enable them to flourish in later life. How prepared are educators to cultivate these qualities of mind and behavior? What do they need to learn to capitalize on the possibilities? Will college faculties embrace these opportunities and make the necessary changes in their curricula and teaching methods? What can be done to hasten the process of innovation and application? In providing answers to these questions, Bok identifies the hurdles to institutional change, proposes sensible reforms, and demonstrates how our colleges can help students lead more successful, productive, and meaningful lives.
Author : Rasmussen, Karen
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 152250933X
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Competency-Based Education in University Settings written by Rasmussen, Karen and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of adult learners are looking to attain their desired academic credentials within the shortest amount of time possible. By implementing competency-based programs, learners are accelerated through their designed program or course. The Handbook of Research on Competency-Based Education in University Settings is a pivotal reference source for the latest academic research on the use of competency-based testing in higher education institutions. Focusing on innovative practices, strategies, and real-world scenarios, this book is ideally designed for educators, students, administrators, professionals, and academics interested in emerging developments for competency-based education initiatives.
Author : Richard Arum
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119268524
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)
Download or read book Improving Quality in American Higher Education written by Richard Arum and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 that account for nearly 40 percent of undergraduate majors in the United States. Contributions from thought leaders in higher education, including Ira Katznelson, George Kuh, and Carol Geary Schneider, offer expert perspectives and persuasive arguments for the need for greater clarity, intentionality, and quality in U.S. higher education. College faculty are our best resource for improving the quality of undergraduate education. This book offers a path forward based on faculty perspectives nationwide: Clarify program structure and aims Articulate high-quality learning goals Rigorously measure student progress Prioritize higher order competencies and disciplinarily grounded conceptual understandings A culmination of over two years of efforts by faculty and association leaders from six disciplines, this book distills the national conversation into a delineated set of fundamental ideas and practices, and advocates for the development and use of rigorous assessment tools that are valued by faculty, students, and society. Improving Quality in American Higher Education brings faculty voices to the fore of the conversation and offers an insightful look at the state of higher education, and a realistic strategy for better serving our students.
Author : Linda Suskie
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119426863
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)
Download or read book Assessing Student Learning written by Linda Suskie and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessing Student Learning is a standard reference for college faculty and administrators, and the third edition of this highly regarded book continues to offer comprehensive, practical, plainspoken guidance. The third edition adds a stronger emphasis on making assessment useful; greater attention to building a culture in which assessment is used to inform important decisions; an enhanced focus on the many settings of assessment, especially general education and co-curricula; a new emphasis on synthesizing evidence of student learning into an overall picture of an integrated learning experience; new chapters on curriculum design and assessing the hard-to-assess; more thorough information on organizing assessment processes; new frameworks for rubric design and setting standards and targets; and many new resources. Faculty, administrators, new and experienced assessment practitioners, and students in graduate courses on higher education assessment will all find this a valuable addition to their bookshelves.
Author : Ross C. Alexander
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 1942695098
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Best Practices in Online Teaching and Learning across Academic Disciplines written by Ross C. Alexander and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Online teaching and learning has surged in recent years, and faculty who normally teach in face-to-face settings are increasingly called upon to teach blended, hybrid, and fully online courses. Best Practices in Online Teaching and Learning across Academic Disciplines provides insights from experienced university teachers and scholars across multiple disciplines—including social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, mathematics, and professional programs such as nursing, education, and business administration—who share innovative practices, pedagogies, and instructional design techniques. This work highlights and features effective, practical, innovative, and engaging best-practices and approaches in online teaching and instructional design that can assist university faculty members and teachers, course designers and developers, and administrators invested and involved in online education. Using a common theme and structure, each chapter is co-authored by faculty members possessing a wealth of experience and credentialing in online teaching and instructional design in the relevant discipline or sub-discipline. Chapters include best-practices, approaches, and techniques within the discipline as well as relevant, innovative, and specific tools and strategies that improve student engagement and outcomes. The book will appeal to faculty members and administrators in higher education teaching or designing online courses or entire online curricula, as well as instructional design staff working with and training faculty. Readers will be especially interested to discover lessons about how contributors have successfully taught and designed courses in disciplines not typically associated with online learning, such as mathematics, composition/writing, drawing, "hard" sciences, and speech, among others. Distributed for George Mason University Press
Author : Trudy W. Banta
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111890365X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)
Download or read book Assessment Essentials written by Trudy W. Banta and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive expansion to the essential higher education assessment text This second edition of Assessment Essentials updates the bestselling first edition, the go-to resource on outcomes assessment in higher education. In this thoroughly revised edition, you will find, in a familiar framework, nearly all new material, examples from more than 100 campuses, and indispensable descriptions of direct and indirect assessment methods that have helped to educate faculty, staff, and students about assessment. Outcomes assessment is of increasing importance in higher education, especially as new technologies and policy proposals spotlight performance-based success measures. Leading authorities Trudy Banta and Catherine Palomba draw on research, standards, and best practices to address the timeless and timeliest issues in higher education accountability. New topics include: Using electronic portfolios in assessment Rubrics and course-embedded assessment Assessment in student affairs Assessing institutional effectiveness As always, the step-by-step approach of Assessment Essentials will guide you through the process of developing an assessment program, from the research and planning phase to implementation and beyond, with more than 100 examples along the way. Assessment data are increasingly being used to guide everything from funding to hiring to curriculum decisions, and all faculty and staff will need to know how to use them effectively. Perfect for anyone new to the assessment process, as well as for the growing number of assessment professionals, this expanded edition of Assessment Essentials will be an essential resource on every college campus.
Author : Tammie Cumming
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000977641
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Enhancing Assessment in Higher Education written by Tammie Cumming and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-published with AIR.Published in association with Assessment and accountability are now inescapable features of the landscape of higher education, and ensuring that these assessments are psychometrically sound has become a high priority for accrediting agencies and therefore also for higher education institutions. Bringing together the higher education assessment literature with the psychometric literature, this book focuses on how to practice sound assessment.This volume provides comprehensive and detailed descriptions of tools for and approaches to assessing student learning outcomes in higher education. The book is guided by the core purpose of assessment, which is to enable faculty, administrators, and student affairs professionals with the information they need to increase student learning by making changes in policies, curricula, and other programs.The book is divided into three sections: overview, assessment in higher education, and case studies. The central section looks at direct and indirect measures of student learning, and how to assure the validity, reliability, and fairness of both types. The first six chapters (the first two sections) alternate chapters written by experts in assessment in higher education and experts in psychometrics. The remaining three chapters are applications of assessment practices in three higher education institutions. Finally, the book includes a glossary of key terms in the field.
Author : Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3658154861
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (581 download)
Download or read book Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education written by Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication focuses on competency orientation in higher education, illustrating international assessment practices for measuring student learning outcomes. For Germany, the Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education (KoKoHs) research program contributes exemplary approaches, and solutions to current challenges in higher education. KoKoHs models and tests can be used for entrance examination, formative and summative assessment of domain-specific and generic competencies and as a basis for developing new teaching-and-learning tools and formats promoting these competencies.
