Stylus Publishing (VA) Advancing Assessment for Student Success: Supporting Learning by Creating Connections Across Assessment, Teaching, Curriculum, and Cocurriculum in Collaboration With Our Colleagues and Our Students

Review "A stark contrast to assessment processes that areaimed primarily at demonstrating fulfillment of externally establishedcompliance standards, the authors' learner-centered assessment process is aimedprimarily at promoting individual students' progress toward achieving course-, program-, and institution-level learning outcomes along their educationalpathways, as well as engaging students in assuming agency for theirlearning. Written by seasoned educators who share a commitment tointegrating assessment into the processes of teaching and learning that stretchacross students' studies, authors Amy Driscoll, Swarup Wood, Dan Shapiro, andNelson Graff provide readers principles, practices, processes, strategies, andcampus scenarios and case studies that deepen and broaden a shared commitmentto all learners' success across the broad institutional system that contributesto their learning.Mostimportant, this book achieves what, I believe, has always been our challenge: to humanize assessment--to uncover the challenges our individual students faceand then develop or identify interventions, strategies, or practices to assisteach student to persist and achieve along the trajectory of that individual'seducational pathways. Students represented in numbers or percentages onassessment reports do not humanize them nor do quantified data or band aidsolutions reflect effective educators' efforts to promote student success. Ithus also call upon accreditors and other reporting entities focused on assuringour institutions advance all students to attain equitable outcomes to read thisbook to inform future assessment reporting guidelines or standards that provideinstitutions opportunities to document the realities that underlie theirongoing efforts to prepare current and future students who reflect our nationaldemographics and who will shape our future. This book should speak to and offer inspiration to so manyin higher education, from faculty to faculty developers, student affairsprofessionals, and administrators."--From the Foreword by Peggy L. Maki "Education Consultant Specializing in Assessing Student Learning""Avery helpful book filled with practical tools to immediately apply accompaniedwith wise advice on how to apply them. In addition to all of the useful tipsand resources is some much-needed inspiration from assessment scholars andpractitioners fully invested in leveraging assessment to optimize studentsuccess."--Marilee Bresciani Ludvik "Professor and Chair, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Texas Arlington"Driscoll and her coauthors clearly get the vital need toprepare a cadre of assessment professionals for every sector of highereducation, including for community colleges. Faculty know the old saying, "Whatgets assessed gets learned." These authors know that how it getsassessed determines how it is learned. Accreditors will particularlyappreciate these practical insights since sound, integrated assessmentpractices are foundational when an institution sets out to demonstrate missionaccomplishment and program improvement.--Richard Winn "President (Retired) Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, Western Association of Schools and Colleges"The authors are luminaries in assessment circles, and once again bring to bear their vast experience in developing assessment principles and techniques, as well as their expertise in training others in these areas. Advancing Assessment for Student Success does, in fact, live up to its name, and higher education is the better for it."--Rosa Belerique and Sonny Calderon "Vice President, Institutional Research and Effectiveness, 2021 President of the California Association for Institutional Research (CAIR); andVice President, Academic Affairs, New York Film Academy"This book is a must-read for not only assessment professionals but also anyone who cares about learning, teaching, and student success. In addition to thoughtful conversations about the current as