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Journal of Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness

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ISSN (Print) 2160-6757 - ISSN (Online) 2160-6757
Published by Penn State University Press

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Editor’s Note
- Abstract: By George Anthony Peffer Before beginning its partnership with the Pennsylvania State University Press in producing JAIE, the New England Educational Assessment Network (NEEAN) self-published a single issue distributed, quite literally, from the trunk of a car. Believing that the articles presented in that pilot endeavor are deserving of a wider distribution, we have elected to republish three of these pieces as part of issue 2.2: Jason Barrett’s account of efforts to assess writing in the humanities at Lawrence Technological University; Ann Rancourt’s analysis of a multiple-year project aimed at assessing an innovative new emphasis on the development of integrative skills among students at Keene State College; and the lessons learned by ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_journal_of_assessment_and_institutional_effectiveness/v002/2.2.peffer.html">Read More</a>
 PubDate: 2012-12-18T00:00:00-05:00
Accountable for What'
- Abstract: By Martha L. A. Stassen The accountability agenda in higher education and, more specifically, accountability for student learning outcomes is receiving a lot of attention these days. Following the Spellings Commission Report in 2006, higher education associations moved quickly to develop accountability systems that would demonstrate responsiveness to external requests for information. For example, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities designed the Voluntary System of Accountability (VSA), which was followed by the community college version, the Voluntary Framework of Accountability (VFA), and another system for private colleges and universities, the ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_journal_of_assessment_and_institutional_effectiveness/v002/2.2.stassen.html">Read More</a>
 Keywords: Educational accountability
 PubDate: 2012-12-18T00:00:00-05:00
First-Year Experience: A Comparison Study
- Abstract: By Michael Ben-Avie, Marianne Kennedy, Christine Unson, Jinhong Li In 2007 Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) initiated a comprehensive First-Year Experience (FYE) program intended to promote student engagement, improve students’ academic competencies, and boost retention rates. The FYE program included, for all incoming freshmen, a revamped New Student Orientation, mandatory academic learning communities, increased academic support work, and increased opportunities for campus involvement. While all students participated in these components, only 50% of students were enrolled in a First-Year Experience seminar; this provided an opportunity for the university to measure the impact of an FYE seminar on student success. The two groups of students were comparable in terms ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_journal_of_assessment_and_institutional_effectiveness/v002/2.2.ben-avie.html">Read More</a>
 Keywords: College freshmen
 PubDate: 2012-12-18T00:00:00-05:00
Writing Assessment in the Humanities: Culture and Methodology
- Abstract: By Jason M. Barrett The emphasis in assessment culture upon empirical, quantitative measurements of pedagogical effectiveness poses unique challenges for humanist scholars and faculty. Perhaps these challenges stem from a kind of preconscious psychological disposition. We poets, philosophers, historians, and assorted textualists/culturalists are instinctively skeptical of the objectivity-truth claims made with such breezy confidence by scientists and statisticians. But at the root of the matter is a practical incompatibility between the kinds of intellectual skills we think we are developing in our students and the kinds of measurement tools that yield numbers with any plausible claim to objectivity. A student submits an ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_journal_of_assessment_and_institutional_effectiveness/v002/2.2.barrett.html">Read More</a>
 Keywords: Humanities
 PubDate: 2012-12-18T00:00:00-05:00
The Eyes and Ears of Engagement: Using RAs to Assess Resident Engagement
- Abstract: By Curtis R. Naser, Karen Donoghue, Stephanie Burrell At Fairfield University our strategic plan, adopted in 2005, calls for the integration of living and learning. Learning Reconsidered: A Campus Wide Focus on the Student Experience (Keeling 2004) suggests that Student Affairs professional and paraprofessional staff play a significant role in creating and educating students on the broader campus curriculum, bridging the gap between the classroom and out-of-classroom experiences. In particular, live-in professional staff and student resident assistants (RAs) have the potential to positively influence students’ classroom and social success, if the residence hall community engages students in smaller dialogues through formal programming and mentoring opportunities ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_journal_of_assessment_and_institutional_effectiveness/v002/2.2.naser.html">Read More</a>
 Keywords: College students
 PubDate: 2012-12-18T00:00:00-05:00
Assessing Academic/Intellectual Skills in Keene State College’s Integrative Studies Program
- Abstract: By Ann Marie Rancourt Keene State College is a founding member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC), and its mission is to ensure the goals of a liberal education are realized. Beginning in 2003, Keene State College embarked on another journey to revise its general education curriculum. In 2006 the new Integrative Studies Program (ISP) was approved. Key to the design of the program was its conceptual framework based on AAC&U’s Greater Expectations Report (2002) in which the essential learning outcomes for a liberal education were identified. Since then AAC&U has recognized the program as a LEAP (Liberal Education and America’s Promise) exemplar program. In 2007 the program was implemented. The program has ... <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_journal_of_assessment_and_institutional_effectiveness/v002/2.2.rancourt.html">Read More</a>
 Keywords: Education, Higher
 PubDate: 2012-12-18T00:00:00-05:00

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