~ Trudy W. Banta and Associates

About the Book:

More than ninety percent of U.S. colleges and universities currently conduct or plan to conduct assessment activities. While assessment practices have been described in numerous books and journals, no one has yet attempted to report Systematically on the outcomes of this decade of assessment activity. Are faculty teaching more effectively? Are students learning more? Is the student experience fuller and richer? The ultimate question has remained: is assessment really making a difference?

Based on a survey of assessment coordinators at 115 Institutions widely known for their work In outcomes assessment, Making a Difference presents a comprehensive account of both the best practices and the important, and sometimes difficult, lessons learned in outcomes assessment. The book brings together detailed first-person accounts by some of the most successful practitioners in the field to show how assessment findings have been used to improve programs, student services, and student learning.

About the Author:

Trudy W. Banta is Vice Chancellor for Planning and Institutional Improvement and Professor of Higher Education at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. Banta was previously director of the Center for Assessment Research and Development at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Contents:

• Part One: Transforming Campus Cultures Through Assessment
• Part Two: Adapting Assessment to Diverse Settings and Populations
• Part Three: Outcomes Assessment Methods That Work
• Part Four: Approaches with Promise for Improving Programs and Services
• Part Five: State-Level Approaches to Assessment
• Part Six: Assessing Assessment
• October 1993 ISBN 1-55542-578-X LC 93-19501 About 410 pages $36.95

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