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Kinzie, Jillian – New Directions for Higher Education, 2017
The chapter considers student engagement to discuss the use of assessment evidence to advance evidence-based practice and to illustrate a scholarship of practice.
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Educational Assessment, Evidence, Evidence Based Practice
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Stitt-Bergh, Monica; Kinzie, Jillian; Fulcher, Keston – Research & Practice in Assessment, 2018
Assessment of student learning is typically undertaken with at least two goals in mind, accountability and improvement. This dichotomy of purpose has dogged assessment from the outset (Ewell, 2009) and contributed to conflicted or incomplete ends. As Banta and Palomba (2015) concluded, assessment undertaken primarily to comply with accountability…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Accountability, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education
Jankowski, Natasha A.; Timmer, Jennifer D.; Kinzie, Jillian; Kuh, George D. – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2018
Over the past decade, the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA) has been documenting what colleges and universities are doing to gather evidence about student learning and helping institutions to productively use assessment data to strengthen undergraduate education. NILOA also has been monitoring how institutions communicate…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Educational Assessment, Higher Education
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McCormick, Alexander C.; Gonyea, Robert M.; Kinzie, Jillian – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2013
Thirteen years ago, 276 bachelor's-granting colleges and universities inaugurated a new approach to assessing college quality by participating in the first national administration of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). This report summarizes what was learned over the NSSE's first 13 years, why the survey is being updated, and new…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Higher Education, Educational Assessment, Student Surveys
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Hundley, Stephen P., Ed. – Assessment Update, 2018
This issue of "Assessment Update" presents the following articles: (1) James Madison University: Reflections on Sustained Excellence in Assessment (Keston H. Fulcher and Elizabeth R. H. Sanchez); (2) Editor's Notes: Assessment Excellence Abounds! (Stephen P. Hundley); (3) The Promise of an All-in-One Assessment System for Student…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Assessment, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Howell-Carter, Marya, Ed.; Gonder, Jennifer, Ed. – Online Submission, 2010
Conference proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference on the Teaching of Psychology: Ideas and Innovations, sponsored by the Psychology Department of the State University of New York at Farmingdale. The conference theme for 2010 was Fostering, Assessing, and Sustaining Student Engagement. The conference featured two keynote addresses from prominent…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Learner Engagement, Undergraduate Students, Student Research
Hunter, Mary Stuart, Ed.; McCalla-Wriggins, Betsy, Ed.; White, Eric R., Ed. – National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2007
Grounded in the philosophy that academic advising is a robust form of one-on-one teaching, this monograph places advising in a new light, one that brings it to the center of the institutional mission and activity. This monograph challenges all readers to embrace the tremendous potential that academic advising has for educating today's college…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, First Generation College Students, Adult Students, Values