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| List of Figures | |
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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 | |