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Foreword | |
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Preface: Improving Institutional Decision Making through Educational Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education | |
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Assessing the Quality of a University-Particularly Its Teaching | |
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Classroom-Level Assessment: Aligning Pedagogical Practices to Enhance Student Learning | |
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Student Learning Outcomes Assessment at the Program and Institutional Levels | |
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The Bottom Line: Will Faculty USE Assessment Findings? | |
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The Perennial Challenges of Accountability | |
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Using National, State, and Local Data for Administrative Decision-Making | |
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Empowerment Evaluation and Accreditation Case Examples: California Institute of Integral Studies and Stanford University | |
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Benchmarking in Higher Education | |
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Questions and Exercises for Section 1 | |
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Theories and Technical Aspects of Educational Measurement | |
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Classical Test Theory and Higher Education: Five Questions | |
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Generalizability Theory in Assessment Contexts | |
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Item Response Theory in Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation for Higher Education | |
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Scaling, Norming, and Equating | |
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Reliability | |
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The Validation of Tests in Higher Education | |
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Statistical Modeling in Measurement, Assessment, and Evaluation for Higher Education | |
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Issues in the Analysis of Change | |
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Questions and Exercises for Section 2 | |
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Test Construction and Development | |
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Building Content and Statistical Test Specifications | |
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Evidence-Centered Design in Assessment Development | |
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The Assessment of 21st-century Skills in Community College Career and Technician Education Programs | |
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Iteni Analysis Procedures for Classroom Assessments in Higher Education | |
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Using Content Specialists for Detecting Item and Test Unfairness | |
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Computer-Based Testing in Higher Education | |
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Questions and Exercises for Section 3 | |
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Testing and Assessment for Decision-Making | |
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Setting and Validating Cut Scores for Tests | |
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College Placement Testing of Entering Students | |
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Admissions Testing in Higher Education | |
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Postsecondary Writing Assessment | |
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Authentic Assessment Validation: A Heuristic Rubrics Cube | |
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Cognitive Diagnostic Method: Rule Space, Q-Matrix Theory and Applications | |
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Questions and Excercises for Section 4 | |
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Approaches to Evaluation in Higher Education | |
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Program Evaluation in Higher Education | |
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Qualitative Evaluation | |
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Naturalistic Evaluation | |
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Responsive Evaluation | |
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Case Studies and Validity | |
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Mixed Methods Specialists in Action: Linking Mixed Methods Research to Learning and Classroom Assessment | |
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Survey Use in Academic Contexts: Considerations and Guidelines | |
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Questions and Exercises for Section 5 | |
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Issues in Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education | |
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Using Data to Find Common Ground Between Secondary and Postsecondary Accommodations for Students with Disabilities | |
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Testing and Evaluation of English-Language Learners in Higher Education | |
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Evaluation of Teacher Quality | |
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Reporting Assessment Results in Higher Education | |
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Presenting Learning Outcomes Assessment Results to Foster Use | |
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Revisiting Reliability and Validity in Higher Education Research and Program Evaluation | |
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Ethical Assessment and Institutional Advancement: Connecting Good Practice with the Need to Move Campuses Forward | |
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Questions and Exercises for Section 6 | |
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Concluding Remarks | |
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About the Contributors | |
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Index | |