Learning Assessment Techniques - by Elizabeth F Barkley & Claire H Major (Paperback)

About the Book

"50 Techniques for Engaging Students and Assessing Learning in College Courses Do you want to: Know what and how well your students are learning? Promote active learning in ways that readily integrate assessment? Gather information that can help make grading more systematic and streamlined? Efficiently collect solid learning outcomes data for institutional assessment? Provide evidence of your teaching effectiveness for promotion and tenure review? Learning Assessment Techniques provides 50 easy-to-implement active learning techniques that gauge student learning across academic disciplines and learning environments. Using Fink's Taxonomy of Significant Learning as its organizational framework, it embeds assessment within active learning activities. Each technique features: purpose and use, key learning goals, step-by-step implementation, online adaptation, analysis and reporting, concrete examples in both on-site and online environments, and key references--all in an easy-to-follow format. The book includes an all-new Learning Goals Inventory, as well as more than 35 customizable assessment rubrics, to help teachers determine significant learning goals and appropriate techniques. This book also provides access to a downloadable worksheet to guide teachers through the seven steps of the Learning Assessment Techniques planning and implementation cycle. College teachers today are under increased pressure to teach effectively and provide evidence of what, and how well, students are learning. An invaluable asset for college teachers of any subject, Learning Assessment Techniques provides a practical framework for seamlessly integrating teaching, learning, and assessment"--

Book Synopsis

50 Techniques for Engaging Students and Assessing Learning in College Courses

Do you want to:

• Know what and how well your students are learning?
• Promote active learning in ways that readily integrate assessment?
• Gather information that can help make grading more systematic and streamlined?
• Efficiently collect solid learning outcomes data for institutional assessment?
• Provide evidence of your teaching effectiveness for promotion and tenure review?

Learning Assessment Techniques provides 50 easy-to-implement active learning techniques that gauge student learning across academic disciplines and learning environments. Using Fink's Taxonomy of Significant Learning as its organizational framework, it embeds assessment within active learning activities.

Each technique features: purpose and use, key learning goals, step-by-step implementation, online adaptation, analysis and reporting, concrete examples in both on-site and online environments, and key references--all in an easy-to-follow format. The book includes an all-new Learning Goals Inventory, as well as more than 35 customizable assessment rubrics, to help teachers determine significant learning goals and appropriate techniques. Readers will also gain access to downloadable supplements, including a worksheet to guide teachers through the six steps of the Learning Assessment Techniques planning and implementation cycle.

College teachers today are under increased pressure to teach effectively and provide evidence of what, and how well, students are learning. An invaluable asset for college teachers of any subject, Learning Assessment Techniques provides a practical framework for seamlessly integrating teaching, learning, and assessment.

From the Back Cover

50 TECHNIQUES TO ENGAGE STUDENTS AND ASSESS LEARNING

Learning Assessment Techniques gives faculty 50 easy-to-implement active learning techniques that are designed to gauge student learning across academic disciplines and learning environments. Using Fink's Taxonomy of Significant Learning as its organizational framework, this important resource embeds assessment within active learning activities. All the techniques presented include illustrative examples as well as information on their purpose and use, key learning goals, and step-by-step implementation instructions. The authors also offer direction for online adaptation and effective analysis and reporting.

With Learning Assessment Techniques as their guide, instructors will know what and how well their students are learning, promote active learning that integrates assessment, and gather information in a systematic and streamlined manner. They will also have the tools to collect solid learning outcomes and data for institutional assessment and provide evidence of their effectiveness that is so vital when seeking promotion and tenure.

"An expertly documented, superbly organized, and convincingly written book centered around 50 techniques that showcase the power of course-based, teacher-driven, integrated assessment."
--Maryellen Weimer, professor emerita, Penn State, and editor, The Teaching Professor newsletter and blog

"Learning Assessment Techniques promises to be a landmark contribution to the resources upon which faculty members can draw. If you are looking for fresh ideas for learning activities for those hard-to-teach learning outcomes, you've come to the right place!"
--Linda Suskie, assessment and accreditation consultant and author of Assessing Student Learning and Five Dimensions of Quality

"Now that higher education recognizes the need to promote more powerful kinds of learning, we need more powerful ideas on how to assess them. This book provides exactly what we need to move forward on that agenda."
--Dee Fink, author of Creating Significant Learning Experiences

About the Author

ELIZABETH F. BARKLEY is professor of music at Foothill College in Los Altos, California. She is a nationally known scholar, educator, and consultant and has been the recipient of several honors, including The Chair Academy's Outstanding Leadership Award for work with learning outcomes assessment and being named California's Higher Education Professor of the Year by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She is author of Student Engagement Techniques from Jossey-Bass.

CLAIRE HOWELL MAJOR is professor of higher education at the University of Alabama. Her expertise is in teaching and learning in higher education and in qualitative research methods. With Elizabeth Barkley, she is the author of Collaborative Learning Techniques, Second Edition from Jossey-Bass.