DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Best Practices in Student Assessment 2023" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
The report is designed to give its readers a tour of the assessment horizon, quickly enabling its readers to get up to speed on peer opinion and where that opinion is going - and why.
This study looks at the use of curriculum maps, rubrics, new grading paradigms, use of the course management system in assessment, use of standardized testing, competency based courses, focus groups, pandemic-era special measures, and much else about the practice of student assessment in colleges and universities.
Data and commentary in the report are derived from a survey of chief assessment officials and related officers at 40 colleges and universities. The study also looks at spending on assessment, trends in assessment office salaries and budgets, and relations of the assessment office with other student and college administrative services.
In addition, the study gives detailed data on the perception of assessment officers and those with similar college functions on the impact of their assessment efforts and the level of cooperation with them from faculty and administration.
It includes an assessment of stakeholders (state government/boards of directors/accreditation agencies/etc.) of pressure for assessment-related results. Survey participants also list some of their favorite sources of assessment-related advice and name the college assessment efforts that they most admire - and why they admire them.
Just a few of the report's many findings are:
- 27.5% of those sampled felt that faculty more or less just "paid lip service" to the college's assessment efforts.
- Research oriented institutions were much likelier than others to say that assessment-related pressures from stakeholders had markedly increased in recent years.
- A mean of 8.24% of students tests out of the basic English writing and composition course designed for fist-year-students.
SUMMARY OF MAIN FINDINGS
- Use of Curriculum Mapping
- Recommended Resources for Development of Curriculum Mapping
- Use of Rubrics
- How Colleges Encourage Use of Course Rubrics
- Institutional Home for Assessment Efforts
- Number of Employees in the Assessment Office or Other Office with this Function
- Salary for the Chief Assessment Officer
- Annual Budget for the Assessment Office
- Course Management Systems Commonly in Use
- Making Use of the Course Management System in Assessment
- Use of Standardized Testing in English Writing and Composition Competency Assessment
- Use of Standardized Testing in Information Literacy and Information Technology Use Competency Assessment
- Use of Standardized Testing in Mathematics Competency Assessment
- Policies on Accepting for Transfer Students the Results of Standardized Tests Conducted by Other Institutions
- Percentage of First Year Students Testing Out or Otherwise Qualifying for Opting Out of the Basic First Year English Writing Course
- Impact of the Pandemic on Use of Standardized Tests
- Confidence Level in Preparatory or Remedial Classes at the Institution
- Pandemic-Era Special Measures
- Frequency of Use of Focus Groups in Student Assessment Efforts
- Topics and Goals of Some Recent Focus Groups
- Use of Competency-Based Courses
- Extent of Faculty's Role and College Administration's Role in Developing College Assessment Strategy
- How College Faculty View the Assessment Effort
- Level of Coordination Among Various Administrative Departments in Assessment Efforts
- Impact of Assessment Efforts on Campus
- Measuring the Progress of Academic Departments in Assessment Goals
- Examples of How Assessment Efforts Led to Improved Results
- College Role Models for Assessment Efforts
- Pressure from Stakeholders to Achieve Assessment-Related Results
- Degree of Growth in Pressure from Stakeholders in the Past Two Years
- Experiments with New Grading or Evaluation Schemes During the Pandemic
For more information about this report visit https://www.researchandmarkets.com/r/rbg40x
