Preface.

The Authors.

Part One: History and Current Status of Assessment.

1 An Emerging Scholarship:A Brief History of Assessment (Peter T. Ewell).

2 Promoting Academic Improvement:Organizational and Administrative DynamicsThat Support Student Assessment (Marvin W. Peterson and Derek S. Vaughan).

Part Two: Theoretical Foundations of Assessment.

3 The Roots of Assessment: Tensions, Solutions,and Research Directions (Peter J. Gray).

4 A Scholar-Practitioner Model for Assessment (T. Dary Erwin and Steven L. Wise).

5 Enacting a Collaborative Scholarshipof Assessment (Marcia Mentkowski and Georgine Loacker).

6 The Scholarly Assessment ofStudent Development (George D. Kuh, Robert M. Gonyea, and Daisy P. Rodriguez).

Part Three: Methods of Assessment.

7 Measurement Issues in Outcomes Assessment (Gary R. Pike).

8 Web Applications in Assessment (Mark D. Shermis and Kathryn E. Daniels).

9 Information Support for Assessment (Victor M. H. Borden).

Part Four: Scholarly Assessment.

10 Engaging and Supporting Faculty in theScholarship of Assessment: Guidelinesfrom Research and Best Practice (Thomas Anthony Angelo).

11 Scholarly Assessment of Student Learningin the Major and General Education (Catherine A. Palomba).

12 Program Review: A Spectrum of Perspectivesand Practices (Karen E. Black and Kimberly A. Kline).

13 Accreditation and the Scholarship of Assessment (Barbara D. Wright).

Part Five: Toward a Scholarship of Assessment.

14 Characteristics of Effective Outcomes Assessment:Foundations and Examples (Trudy W. Banta).

15 A Call for Transformation (Trudy W. Banta).

References.

Name Index.

Subject Index.