Overcoming Obstacles to Campus Assessment

Autor/in	Volkwein, J. Fredericks
Titel	Overcoming Obstacles to Campus Assessment
Quelle	In: New Directions for Institutional Research, (2010), S.47-63 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0271-0579
Schlagwörter	Institutional Research; Criticism; Public Relations; Stakeholders; Data Collection; Educational Planning; Institutional Evaluation; Models; Evaluation Criteria; Evidence; Measurement; Measurement Techniques; Colleges; Educational Improvement; Accreditation (Institutions); Outcomes of Education; Educational Assessment; Guidelines; Input Output Analysis; College Administration; College Environment; Barriers; Organizational Change; Educational Change; New York; Pennsylvania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Institutionelle Forschung; Kritik; Public relation work; Öffentlichkeitsarbeit; Data capture; Datensammlung; Bildungsplanung; Analogiemodell; Evidenz; Messverfahren; Messtechnik; College; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Accreditation; Institution; Institutions; Akkreditierung; Staatliche Anerkennung; Institut; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Richtlinien; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; Hochschulumwelt; Organisationswandel; Bildungsreform
Abstract	Despite their apparent popularity among those seeking degrees and credentials, today's colleges and universities face several interrelated public criticisms and concerns. When these competing concerns about student success, productivity, cost, and educational effectiveness all collide at the campus level, they create an array of campus tensions for campus leaders, planners, institutional researchers, and student affairs administrators at all levels. This chapter describes how universities can use, and have used, systems of local data gathering to respond to these concerns with facts and evidence to better inform internal and external stakeholders, as well as to take corrective action. The author offers four practical steps that can be taken locally by the campus to alleviate these concerns: (1) avoid the paralysis of the grand plan; (2) start with an outcomes model or conceptual framework; (3) conduct an inventory of existing information; and (4) use the results for constructive organizational change. (Contains 3 figures and 1 table.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10