Assessing the Generic Outcomes of College: Selections from Assessment Measures (Assessment Update Special Collections)

Assessing the Generic Outcomes of College: Selections from Assessment Measures......Page 3
Contents......Page 5
Introduction—Assessing the Generic Outcomes of College: Selections from "Assessment Measures"......Page 7
Instruments for Assessing General Education Outcomes......Page 16
The College Outcome Measures Program (COMP) Examination......Page 19
Joint Task Force of the Interinstitutional Committee of Academic Officers and State Board for Community College Education......Page 23
Criteria for Evaluating Assessment Instruments......Page 25
The College Basic Academic Subjects Examination......Page 28
The Academic Profile II......Page 31
The Collegiate Learning Assessment......Page 34
Designing Comprehensive Writing Assessments......Page 40
Implementing a Large-Scale Writing Assessment......Page 43
Assessing the Critical Thinking Abilities of College Students......Page 49
The Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal......Page 54
The California Critical Thinking Skills Test......Page 57
Tasks in Critical Thinking......Page 60
The Reflective Judgment Interview......Page 63
The CRESST Problem-Solving Measures......Page 66
Freshman-to-Senior Gains at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville......Page 72
Methods of Evaluating Student Change during College......Page 76
Revisiting the Blind Alley of Value Added......Page 81