Planning and Assessment in Higher Education: Demonstrating Institutional Effectiveness

Planning and Assessment in Higher Education provides guidance for assessing and promoting institutional effectiveness. The book contains a wide range of issues, from measures of effectiveness to communicating with the public. Written by an expert in the field, with titles such as the Assistant VP for Institutional Research and Planning, director of national costs of instruction research project, as well as the Vice Chair of an accreditation agency, this is an essential resource for university leaders for achieving institutional effectiveness.Content: Chapter 1 The National Context for Assessment (pages 1–21): Chapter 2 Starting at the Beginning: Mission?Driven Planning and Assessment (pages 23–46): Chapter 3 Assessing Institutional Effectiveness: Student Issues (pages 47–87): Chapter 4 A Core Issue in Institutional Effectiveness: Developing Sensible Measures of Student Learning (pages 89–107): Chapter 5 Maximizing Human and Fiscal Resources in Support of the Teaching/Learning Process (pages 109–132): Chapter 6 A Comparative Context for Examining Data on Teaching Loads and Instructional Costs (pages 133–156): Chapter 7 Measuring Administrative Effectiveness (pages 157–172): Chapter 8 Communicating Assessment Results (pages 173–191): Chapter 9 Where Do We Go from Here? (pages 193–205):