Research Catalog

Title

Handbook of academic evaluation / Paul L. Dressel.

Author

Dressel, Paul L. (Paul Leroy), 1910-1989.

Publication

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1976.

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Details

Description

xviii, 518 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Assessing institutional effectiveness, student progress, and professional performance for decision making in higher education.

Series Statement

Jossey-Bass series in higher education

Uniform Title

Jossey-Bass series in higher education.

Subject

• Educational surveys
• Organization
• Teaching
• Universities and colleges
• Education, Higher > Aims and objectives
• Education
• Organization and Administration
• Teaching
• Universities
• Evaluation Studies
• teaching
• colleges (institutions)
• universities (institutions)
• Universities and colleges
• Organization
• Education, Higher > Aims and objectives
• Educational surveys
• Evaluation
• Hochschulbildung
• Onderwijsevaluatie
• Education
• United States

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 461-507.

Contents

Part 1: Basic considerations -- An approach to evaluation -- Evaluation as basis of decision making and change -- Starting with objectives -- Assessing affective outcomes -- Accountability and attainment of social goals -- Some technical aspects -- Part 2: Evaluation of student experience and educational progress -- Recruitment, selection, classification, placement -- Learning environment -- Educational processes -- Examinations and evaluation in courses -- Comprehensive examinations -- Grades, credits, and alternatives -- Part 3: Evaluation of programs and personnel -- Curriculum -- Graduate education -- Faculty -- Administration -- Institutional self-study -- State coordination and planning.

ISBN

• 0875892760
• 9780875892764

LCCN

75044881

OCLC

• ocm02195018
• 2195018
• SCSB-159318

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library