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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Afterword: Considerations for Future Practice of Assessment and Accountability
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Bresciani, Marilee J. – New Directions for Student Services, 2013
This afterword offers challenges and considerations as the assessment movement continues to develop. The author offers some simple considerations for readers to ponder as they advance their evidence-based decision making processes, and encourages others to use these methods within the context of recent neuroscientific evidence that learning and…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Accountability, Institutional Research, Student Personnel Services
Data-Driven Planning: Using Assessment in Strategic Planning
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Bresciani, Marilee J. – New Directions for Student Services, 2010
Data-driven planning or evidence-based decision making represents nothing new in its concept. For years, business leaders have claimed they have implemented planning informed by data that have been strategically and systematically gathered. Within higher education and student affairs, there may be less evidence of the actual practice of…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Change Strategies, Organizational Change, Student Personnel Services
Electronic Co-Curricular Student Portfolios--Putting Them into Practice
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Bresciani, Marilee J. – New Directions for Student Services, 2005
Electronic portfolios are becoming more prevalent on colleges and universities and can be a valuable tool in assessment efforts on campus.
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Portfolios (Background Materials), Portfolio Assessment, Formative Evaluation
External Partners in Assessment of Student Development and Learning.
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Bresciani, Marilee J. – New Directions for Student Services, 2002
This chapter discusses the role of external partnerships in student development and learning outcomes assessment in the context of results from a national survey of senior student affairs officers. (Contains 35 references.) (Author)
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Partnerships in Education, Student Development, Student Evaluation