Improving quality in American higher education : learning outcomes and assessments for the 21st century / / Richard Arum, Josipa Roksa, Amanda Cook

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910798498203321
• Autore: Arum Richard
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: San Francisco, California : , : Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Brand, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-119-26852-4; 1-119-26851-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 378.73
• Soggetti: Education, Higher - United States - Evaluation; Educational change
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Defining and assessing learning in higher education / Josipa Roksa, Richard Arum, and Amanda Cook -- Measuring college learning in history / Lendol Calder and Tracy Steffes -- Measuring college learning in economics / Sam Allgood and Amanda Bayer -- Measuring college learning in sociology / Susan J. Ferguson and William Carbonaro -- Measuring college learning in communication / Nancy Kidd, Trevor Parry-Giles, Steven A. Beebe, and W. Bradford Mello -- Measuring college learning in biology / Clarissa Dirks and Jennifer K. Knight -- Measuring college learning in business / Jeffrey Nesteruk and Sara Beckman -- A set of further reflections on improving teaching, learning, and assessment / Peter Ewell, Natasha Jankowski, George Kuh, Carol Geary Schneider, Charles Blaich, and Kathleen Wise.