Coming to Terms with Student Outcomes Assessment: Faculty and Administrators' Journeys to Integrating Assessment in Their Work and Institutional Culture

As these excerpts show, this is no conventional book about assessment. It presents the unvarnished first-person accounts of fourteen faculty and administrators of how they grappled and engaged with assessment, and how - despite misgivings and an often-contentious process - they were able to gain the collaboration of their peers as the benefits for student learning became evident.

This is a book for skeptical faculty, for those who have been tasked to spearhead their institution's call to create a culture of assessment; and, on campuses where assessment has been widely accepted and implemented, for those who now need to ensure this commitment will endure.

For all these audiences, this book offers valuable advice, strategies, models and ideas.