Assessment Clear and Simple: A Practical Guide for Institutions, Departments, and General Education

by Barbara E. Fassler Walvoord

Book Overview

Assessment Clear and Simple is "Assessment 101" in a book--a concise and step-by-step guide written for everyone who participates in the assessment process. This practical book helps to make assessment simple, cost-efficient, and useful to the institution, while at the same time meeting the requirements of accreditation agencies, legislatures, review boards, and others. Assessment Clear and Simple explores a variety of topics and shows how to: Build...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787973114
• ISBN13: 9780787973117
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 145 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.6" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Good book

Assessment never seems to be simple, but this book manages to boil it down to the main points. I like how it is organized, and the appendices offer some good starting points for tools that you can customize to suit your own needs.

Looking for Help with Assessment

This book is an excellent resource for someone trying to understand how good assessment works. It is very easy to understand, provides lots of examples and doesn't try to confuse the reader by using excessive education jargon. A very good buy.

Great for beginners

If your college is just beginning institutional assessment, then this is the book for you. It has several talking points that will allow faculty and the administration to join together in the task. Overall, I enjoyed it.

Very practical, highly usable

This is a great introduction to the assessment process with chapters specifically for departments and general education. The appendices include sample forms and processes for all types of assessment. A great practical resource for anyone responsible for creating an institutional or departmental assessment program. I know at my institution, faculty and administrators have been looking for something like this that can give them a concrete process for doing assessment. If you have only one book on assessment, this should be it. Other books fill in more about the theory and why, but the theory and why are nothing without implementation.