• About Assessment Update
• Assessment Update Collections
• Call for Contributions and Author Guidelines
• Web Corner

About Assessment Update:

Assessment Update has been covering the latest developments in assessment in higher education nationwide--even world wide--longer than any other publication. Assessment Update brings it all together in one place, exploring the latest breaktroughs and reassuring the "tried and true."

Each 16-page issue of Assessment Update features thoughtful articles and columns written by some of the top names in assessment--women and men who have not only studied the many ways assessment is being used today but who have also overseen the development and implementation of assessment programs in their own institutions.

• Innovative program models from four-year colleges and universities and community colleges across the country.
  
• Advice on conducting assessments in a range of areas, including general education, academic majors, and student services such as advising.
  
• Examinations of the various state mandates for assessment.
  

Assessment Update gives you a mix of top-notch scholarship and advice rooted in the practical experience of its authors. Pressures for assessment are increasing all the time, both from within institutions and from without. In an era of tight money and demands for accountability from a whole range of groups, that´s not going to change. But even without imposed mandates, keeping up with the latest developments in assessment is important because assessment is a powerful tool for measuring how well you're meeting the educational needs of your students.

There´s only one publication that keeps you at the leading edge of assessment today-- Assessment Update.

Ordering Information:
Assessment Update
Published Bimonthly
Trudy W. Banta, Editor
Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis
ISSN: 1041-6099
URL: www.josseybass.com

Assessment Update Collections Include:

• The Hallmarks of Effective Outcomes Assessment: Assessment Update Collections
  
• Community College Assessment: Assessment Update Collections
  
• Portfolio Assessment: Uses, Cases, Scoring, and Impact

Call for Contributions:

The editor welcomes short articles, research summaries, and news items for Assessment Update. Please click on the guidelines that follow for those of you who would like to contribute articles on outcomes and assessment in higher education.

Author Guidelines

Web Corner:

These brief columns were intended to help readers tap into the growing number of higher-education assessment resources on the World Wide Web. They appear occasionally in Assessment Update between September/October 1997 and May/June 2002.

Columns