Coming to Terms With Student Outcomes Assessment

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.

Peggy L. Maki is a higher education consultant specializing in assisting institutions to integrate assessment of student learning into educational practices. Formerly Senior Scholar and Director of Assessment at the AAHE, Associate Director of the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc., she has also served as a Dean and Chair at various institutions. She is the author of Assessing for Learning, and co-editor of The Assessment of Doctoral Education.