Let's Do Assessment: Assessment in Student Affairs (Part II in the Three-Part Series - 3 CDs)

Gary R. Hanson, Editor Doing Assessment requires a good plan and a thorough understanding of how assessment can help your campus. The first volume in the Let's Do Assessment series provides key articles, audio clips from assessment experts, and narrated Power Point presentations to help you develop an assessment plan. In this section you will hear from assessment experts about getting started and how to deal with the political resistance to doing assessment, you will learn the fundamental components of a good assessment plan, assessment instruments, data collection methods and analysis methods will be covered as well as examples from institutions across the country for reference. Topics Include:

• Putting Assessment In Perspective
• Five Assessment Questions for Student Affairs
• Getting Started: Strategies, Developing a Plan, Goals and Objectives and Dealing with Resistance
• Assessment Design Issues: Mode of Inquiry, Purpose and Focus, Data Collection Strategies, Sampling and Developing an Assessment Dissemination Plan
• Assessment Instruments:Pros and Cons of Standardized vs. Customized Assessment Instruments, How to Evaluate Standardized Instruments, Building Customized Assessment Instruments, Developing Interview and Focus Group Protocols, Designing Assessment Rubrics, Using Electronic Portfolios
• Data Collection Methods: Interviews, Focus Groups, Mail Surveys, Web surveys, etc.
• Data Analysis Methods: How to analyze You User Audience, Statistics, How/When to Use Them, etc.
• Who Are our Students: Assessing Demographics, Pre-college Experiences, Academic Preparation, Attitudes and Expectations
• How Do Our Students Learn and Who Do They Become?: Assessment Strategies, Background Reading, Assessment of Student Learning and Development
• What Impacts Do Our Programs and Services Have on Students?: Analysis Design, Examples
• Are the Benefits of our Programs Worth the Costs?: Benchmarking and Costs Comparisons, Evaluation Metrics, Examples
• Assessment Web Resources
• Assessment Readings