Three Presentations: From the National Conference on Assessment in Higher Education (2nd, Denver, Colorado, June 14-17, 1987).

Institution	American Association for Higher Education, Washington, DC.
Titel	Three Presentations: From the National Conference on Assessment in Higher Education (2nd, Denver, Colorado, June 14-17, 1987).
Quelle	(1987), (42 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; College Students; Educational Assessment; Educational Objectives; Educational Quality; Educational Responsibility; Educational Testing; Ethics; Higher Education; Outcomes of Education; School Responsibility; Student Evaluation; Teacher Responsibility + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Erziehungsverantwortung; Ethik; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Lehrverpflichtung
Abstract	The topic of assessment is addressed in three papers from the 1987 national conference on assessment in higher education. In "Assessing Content and Process: Challenges for the New Assessments," Lee S. Shulman considers the ongoing debates about assessment that revolve around the question of what is worth assessing. Attention is focused on the battles between those who argue that it is the content of knowledge that ought to be the focus of assessment, and, on the other hand, those who argue that assessment should focus on the processes of reasoning and performing, of applying and interpreting. The second paper, by Virginia B. Smith, "In the Eye of the Beholder," considers issues concerning educational quality and identifies four factors that influence the emphasis on educational quality: the need to consolidate, the lack of potential for growth and the possibility of contraction, the loss of a competitive edge by the United States in the world market, and rising and substantial costs of higher education. In "The Ethics of Assessment," Donald M. Stewart considers ethical issues in assessment, including institutional autonomy and responsibility, the goal to improve student learning, the role of traditional testing, valuing what is tested, and the role of tests in decision making. (SW)
Anmerkungen	AAHE Assessment Forum, One Dupont Circle, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20036 ($8.00).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC