A very helpful book filled with practical tools to immediately apply accompanied with wise advice on how to apply them. In addition to all of the useful tips and resources is some much-needed inspiration from assessment scholars and practitioners fully invested in leveraging assessment to optimize student success.
Marilee Bresciani Ludvik
Professor and Chair, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Texas Arlington
"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
"With a rich storytelling and evidence-based approach, the authors integrate assessment, teaching, and curriculum through illustrative institutional case studies. Meaningful key aspects of the book include equity-based assessment, inclusion of student voice, and advancing reflection. The friendly, down-to-earth presentation allows the reader to apply tailored effective strategies in meeting cultural and institutional needs in advancing assessment. This is a must-read for universities who wish to thoughtfully and purposefully improve assessment through collaboration, emphasizing the why and the what of assessment."
Laurie G. Dodge
Vice Chancellor of Institutional Assessment and Planning at Brandman University, and Founding Chair of the Board of Directors for C-BEN
"Whether a faculty member, academic administrator, staff, or student; whether new to assessment or someone who has been involved in assessment for yearswhatever role you might play within an institution of higher education, this book is a breath of fresh air that provides a revitalized pathway to ensure that assessment processes and practices are learner-centered and collaboratively driven conversations on educational design. What a true delight to read this book! There is something in this book for everyone thanks to the authors providing examples, strategies, processes, practices, and reflections on how to take the work of fostering student success through learning to the next level. Through rich conversations with the reader, the book mirrors and models the collaborative potential of bringing faculty, assessment, student affairs, and staff together to truly deliver on the promise of education by laying out the types of conversations that should be unfolding within our institutions. This book is a must- read, showcasing the power collaboration and conversations can have on everyday lived experiences in teaching and learning, which in turn can transform institutions into learning systems."
Natasha A. Jankowski
Former Executive Director of the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
A stark contrast to assessment processes that are aimed primarily at demonstrating fulfillment of externally established compliance standards, the authors learner-centered assessment process is aimed primarily at promoting individual students progress toward achieving course-, program-, and institution-level learning outcomes along their educational pathways, as well as engaging students in assuming agency for their learning. Written by seasoned educators who share a commitment to integrating assessment into the processes of teaching and learning that stretch across students studies, authors Amy Driscoll, Swarup Wood, Dan Shapiro, and Nelson Graff provide readers principles, practices, processes, strategies, and campus scenarios and case studies that deepen and broaden a shared commitment to all learners success across the broad institutional system that contributes to their learning.
Most important, this book achieves what, I believe, has always been our challenge: to humanize assessmentto uncover the challenges our individual students face and then develop or identify interventions, strategies, or practices to assist each student to persist and achieve along the trajectory of that individuals educational pathways. Students represented in numbers or percentages on assessment reports do not humanize them nor do quantified data or band aid solutions reflect effective educators efforts to promote student success. I thus also call upon accreditors and other reporting entities focused on assuring our institutions advance all students to attain equitable outcomes to read this book to inform future assessment reporting guidelines or standards that provide institutions opportunities to document the realities that underlie their ongoing efforts to prepare current and future students who reflect our national demographics and who will shape our future.
This book should speak to and offer inspiration to so many in higher education, from faculty to faculty developers, student affairs professionals, and administrators.
From the Foreword by Peggy L. Maki
Education Consultant Specializing in Assessing Student Learning
"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 assessment landscape, the book is rich with detailed, authentic examples that can be easily applied to improving assessment at multiple levels. The authors present a strong argument that the integration of assessment into learning and teaching should be done through the lens of equity, engagement, and continuous improvement. Their genuine care for student learning, extensive experiences, diverse perspectives, and approachable narrative style make this book an enlightening and enjoyable read."
Su Swarat
Associate Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness & Accreditation Liaison Officer California State University, Fullerton
"This insightful book recognizes our students as invaluable partners in the effort to ensure their successwhat an intuitive yet significant offering to the assessment community and everyone who strives to improve teaching and learning! The authors share knowledge and experience generously, as mentors, with a reassuring and encouraging voice. As an important addition to the literature on assessment, this volume arrives at a moment when its critical that our students be heard and understood.
Kelly Wahl
Director of Student Achievement, UCLA Division of Undergraduate Education
"Driscoll and her coauthors clearly get the vital need to prepare a cadre of assessment professionals for every sector of higher education, including for community colleges. Faculty know the old saying, What gets assessed gets learned. These authors know that how it gets assessed determines how it is learned. Accreditors will particularly appreciate these practical insights since sound, integrated assessment practices are foundational when an institution sets out to demonstrate mission accomplishment and program improvement."
Richard Winn
President (Retired) Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, Western Association of Schools and Colleges
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