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Download full textHale, Charles D.; Travis, Marvin T. – 1992
In response to increasing demands for evidence of institutional effectiveness in higher education, and given the diversity within the Academy, a decentralized model of institutional academic effects assessment, the Academic Program Level Effects Assessment Model (APLEAM), may be useful. APLEAM consists of three interdependent components:…
Descriptors: Accountability, Admission (School), Alumni, College Outcomes Assessment
Quinley, John W.; And Others – 1990
This institutional effectiveness plan for Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) is designed to serve as the blueprint by which assessment activities are undertaken and results disseminated throughout the college. First, Chapter One provides an overview of CPCC's self-study planning process, indicating that a 33-member task force comprised of…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, College Planning, Community Colleges, Institutional Mission
Barefoot, Betsy O., Ed. – 1993
This document is a compendium of information from 34 colleges and universities on freshman seminar/student success courses and their outcomes and how institutions are evaluating and reporting on these programs. Freshman seminars or success courses are courses for entering students that aim to ease the student's transition to the college…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Outcomes Assessment, Community Colleges, Educational Assessment
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Gives an overview of the Ball State University (Indiana) academic assessment program, from its origins through present and future efforts. Several current assessment activities are described--university-wide, in general education, and discipline-specific. Areas of strength in the program and challenges to conducting successful assessment are…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Outcomes Assessment, Core Curriculum, Departments
Magruder, Jack; McManis, Michael A.; Young, Candace C. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1997
Assessment can have a profound transformational impact on a college or university, but for this to occur, such core values as improvement of student learning through collection of performance-related data must be integrated into the institutional culture. At Truman State University (Missouri), an initially modest commitment to improving student…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Case Studies, Change Strategies, College Outcomes Assessment
Walleri, R. Dan; Stoering, Juliette M. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1997
The evolution of the Mt. Hood Community College (Oregon) effort to analyze institutional policies affecting high-risk students is chronicled from the early 1980s to the present, from the initial findings of program ineffectiveness to program improvement. Chronicle includes successes and limitations of several early-change strategies, and factors…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Outcomes Assessment, Community Colleges, Educational Trends
Hurst, Darrell, Ed.; Jobin, Robert, Ed. – VCCA Journal, 1991
This issue of the "VCCA Journal" contains the following articles: (1) "Dear Andrei--Dear Patricia: International Education in English Composition I," by Robert Kilmer; (2) "The Cultivation of Critical Thinking: Some Tools and Techniques," by Russell Crescimanno; (3) "Assessment Partnership: A Model for Two-Year…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Accounting, Administrative Organization
Hayes, C. Ray – New Directions for Higher Education, 1995
To develop a set of effective performance indicators, three campuses of Texas A&M University collaborated: a large research university, a historically black institution, and an urban campus undergoing major changes. Evolution of the project and the strategies used to develop core indicators while addressing the different institutional missions…
Descriptors: Accountability, Black Colleges, Case Studies, Change Strategies
