Assessment Higher Education

If you want to pass the Hesi A2 Test, but don’t have a lot of time for studying keep reading...You are no doubt a busy student with a lot of things going on! It can be challenging to find the time to read your textbook in preparation for the Hesi Exam. However, the truth is that the Hesi exam is a challenging test, and you are given a maximum of three tries in 12 months to complete the test. This edition is a practice questions edition. It reviews all essential concepts found on the exam, from all categories of the test.

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In the fall of 1999, New York Times education reporter Jacques Steinberg was given an unprecedented opportunity to observe the admissions process at prestigious Wesleyan University. Over the course of nearly a year, Steinberg accompanied admissions officer Ralph Figueroa on a tour to assess and recruit the most promising students in the country. The Gatekeepers follows a diverse group of prospective students as they compete for places in the nation's most elite colleges.

In this controversial new work, Jeffrey L. Buller, the author of Positive Academic Leadership and Change Leadership in Higher Education, argues that nearly every initiative undertaken to improve higher education in the last fifty years—merit pay systems, student course evaluations, faculty evaluation, outcomes assessment, program review, external college rankings, strategic planning, and the like—has actually had the opposite effect. In addition, he argues that current approaches to accreditation have failed, “administrative bloat” is not the leading cause of tuition increases at ...

Accreditation. Merit salary systems. External rankings. Outcomes assessment. Program reviews. These strategies and many others were developed as ways of improving the quality of higher education. But as Jeffrey L. Buller—the author of such works as The Essential Department Chair, Positive Academic Leadership, and Change Leadership in Higher Education—argues in Reinventing College, they haven’t fulfilled their promise. At best, they’ve resulted in modest improvements that aren’t worth the time and cost they required. At worst, they harmed the quality of higher education by shifting...

Grades and assessment are elephants in almost every room where discussions of education are underway. This collection examines the what, why, and whether of grades: When do they fail? What harm do they do and how can we mitigate that harm? Can we construct more poetic, less supposedly objective, models for assessment? The word “ungrading" means raising an eyebrow at grades as a systemic practice, distinct from simply “not grading.” The word is a present participle, an ongoing process, not a static set of practices. Ungrading is a systemic critique, a series of conversations we have ...

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This audiobook provides you with all the up-to-date information and guidance you need to pass the first time. It focuses systematically on each of the assessment criteria in the unit and provides a suggested structure for drafting responses to meet the requirements of the unit's assessment criteria.

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