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Assessment by Design: A Practical Approach to Improve Student Learning

Written with faculty in mind, Assessment by Design is a practical resource that will also be useful to student affairs staff and administrators dedicated to using assessment to improve learning in curricular and co-curricular settings. This book presents the Cycle of Assessment as a framework that supports assessment in service of improving student learning. The framework consists of the following stages: Developing Your Assessment Question; Planning Decisions to Consider; Collecting and Scoring the Data; Analyzing and Discussing Assessment Data; and Report and Act on Assessment Findings. After an introductory chapter that provides an overview of the cycle, the book devotes a chapter to each stage of the cycle. After a concluding chapter, four appendices include helpful rubrics, forms, and exercises.This book uses Action Research ideas to inform local classroom and institutional practices. While the theoretical framework is explained, each part follows through by offering immediate application: Hands-on activities for the readers to perform that directly support the practice of assessment in context, allowing readers to consider and apply the framework in their own programs, classes, and activities.The book emerged from a workshop the author developed and led for many years in both face-to-face and online settings while she was Director of Assessment, Evaluation and Institutional Outcomes at Johnson County Community College (JCCC). Initially developed for JCCC faculty, it was later offered to participants from a variety of schools around the country, 4-year as well as 2-year, and private as well as public.

Assessment-Center: Entwicklung und Anwendung – mit 57 AC-Übungen und Checklisten

AC-Experten zeigen in diesem praxisnahen Buch, wie man Assessment-Center professionell, kreativ, sozialverträglich und gleichzeitig kosteneffizient und flexibel gestaltet und durchführt – im Einsatzgebiet Personalentwicklung ebenso wie in der Personalauswahl. Neben Grundsätzlichem zur Personaldiagnostik, -beratung und Personenbeurteilung bietet das Buch konkrete Anleitungen zur Konstruktion, Durchführung und Evaluation von ACs in der Praxis. Dabei werden diverse AC-Varianten vorgestellt (Einzel-Assessment, Gruppen-Assessment, 360˚-Feedback) sowie Tipps zur Anbindung an die Unternehmensstrategie gegeben. Zahlreiche Ablaufpläne, Checklisten und Übungen finden sich nicht nur im Buch sondern auch zum Download und eigener Bearbeitung im Internet. Ein Werkzeugkasten für Personalentwickler, Personalmanager, Berater und Führungskräfte.

Assessment-Center

Das Assessment Center (AC) ist eine der bekanntesten Methoden zur Personalauswahl und -entwicklung. Damit das AC sein Potenzial voll entfalten kann, bieten hier erfahrene AC-Praktiker die fundierte Anleitung für den Entwurf und die Durchführung inkl. Ablaufpläne und Checklisten. Sie beurteilen Varianten, Weiterentwicklungen und Trends. Sie zeigen Maßnahmen zur Prüfung der Wirksamkeit und Anbindung an die Unternehmensstrategie. Eine praktisch nutzbare und inhaltlich fundierte Praxis- und Orientierungshilfe für Anwender und Entscheider, die ACs kosteneffizient durchführen und sich dennoch an wissenschaftlichen Standards orientieren wollen.

Assessment Center: Entwicklung, Durchführung, Trends Mit neuen originalen AC-Übungen

Dieses Standardwerk vermittelt neue und immer noch gültige Erkenntnisse aus der empirischen Forschung und aus der Praxis für die betriebliche Anwendung. Das Buch gibt konkrete Anleitungen zur Entwicklung eines unternehmensspezifischen Assessment Centers und behandelt auch neue Entwicklungen und Trends. Mit zwei originalen AC-Übungen: Rollenübungen für ein Mitarbeitergespräch und Postkorb-Fallstudie, inklusive Musterlösung und Auswertung.Jetzt mit noch mehr praktischen HInweisen in der 4., vollständig überarbeiteten Auflage mit über 500 Seiten sowie mehr als 80 Skizzen und Abbildungen.

Assessment Center: Entwicklung, Durchführung, Trends Mit originalen AC-Übungen

Dieses Standardwerk vermittelt neue und immer noch gültige Erkenntnisse aus der empirischen Forschung und aus der Praxis für die betriebliche Anwendung. Das Buch gibt konkrete Anleitungen zur Entwicklung eines unternehmensspezifischen Assessment Centers und behandelt auch neue Entwicklungen und Trends. Mit zwei originalen AC-Übungen: Rollenübungen für ein Mitarbeitergespräch und Postkorb-Fallstudie, inklusive Musterlösung und Auswertung.Jetzt mit noch mehr praktischen HInweisen in der 4., vollständig überarbeiteten Auflage mit über 500 Seiten sowie mehr als 80 Skizzen und Abbildungen.

Assessment Center: Entwicklung Durchführung Trends

Assessment Center: Entwicklung, Durchführung, Trends. Mit originalen AC-Übungen

Dieses Standardwerk vermittelt neue und immer noch gültige Erkenntnisse aus der empirischen Forschung und aus der Praxis für die betriebliche Anwendung. Das Buch gibt konkrete Anleitungen zur Entwicklung eines unternehmensspezifischen Assessment Centers und behandelt auch neue Entwicklungen und Trends. Mit zwei originalen AC-Übungen: Rollenübungen für ein Mitarbeitergespräch und Postkorb-Fallstudie, inklusive Musterlösung und Auswertung. Jetzt mit noch mehr praktischen HInweisen in der 4., vollständig überarbeiteten Auflage mit über 500 Seiten sowie mehr als 80 Skizzen und Abbildungen.

Assessment Center: Entwicklung, Durchführung, Trends. Mit originalen AC-Übungen

Der Autor hat die neuen und die immer noch gültigen Erkenntnisse aus der empirischen Forschung und der Praxis für die betriebliche Anwendung mit mehr als 80 Skizzen und Abbildungen anschaulich aufbereitet. Das Standardwerk zum Assessment Center nun in der dritten, komplett überarbeiteten Auflage mit noch mehr praktischen Hinweisen.

Assessment Center

Konzentrierte Praxiserfahrungen werden hier umsetzbar und kritisch dargestellt. Das Buch gibt konkrete Anleitungen zur Entwicklung eines unternehmensspezifischen Assessment Centers und behandelt auch neue Entwicklungen und Trends wie Einzelassessments, computergestützte Anwendungen, dynamische Assessments.

Assessment-Center. Entwicklung und Anwendung - mit 57 AC-Übungen und Checklisten zum Downloaden und Bearbeiten im Internet: Entwicklung Und Anwendung - Mit 57 Ac-aufgaben Und Checklisten Zum Downloaden Und Bearbeiten Im Internet

Das Assessment-Center (AC) dient hauptsächlich der Personalauswahl, wird aber auch im Rahmen der Personalentwicklung eingesetzt. In dem Band zeigen erfahrene AC-Praktiker, wie ein Assessment-Center konstruiert und durchgeführt werden kann – kosteneffizient und unter Einhaltung wissenschaftlicher Standards. Sie erläutern Maßnahmen zur Prüfung der Wirksamkeit des Assessment-Centers und zu dessen Anbindung an die Unternehmensstrategie. Ablaufpläne, Checklisten und Übungen werden in der 2. Auflage zum Downloaden und Bearbeiten angeboten.

Assessment Center Perspectives for Talent Management Strategies: 2nd Edition

Written by three leading scholars with vast experience in the science and practice of assessment centers (ACs), this is the first volume to comprehensively integrate variations of the assessment center method with alternative talent management strategies. A useful reference guide, it examines the many ways in which organizations can apply the assessment center method to achieve their talent management goals. It provides balanced and in-depth coverage of theory, research, and practice pertaining to the dimension-, task-, and multifaceted-perspectives on the AC method. Ideal for researchers, practitioners, and students alike, and well suited for courses in testing and measurement, personnel selection, HR planning and staffing, training and development, and organizational change, Assessment Center Perspectives for Talent Management Strategies is a complete and up-to-date account of the assessment center method.

Assessment Center Perspectives for Talent Management Strategies: 2nd Edition

Written by three leading scholars with vast experience in the science and practice of assessment centers (ACs), this is the first volume to comprehensively integrate variations of the assessment center method with alternative talent management strategies. A useful reference guide, it examines the many ways in which organizations can apply the assessment center method to achieve their talent management goals. It provides balanced and in-depth coverage of theory, research, and practice pertaining to the dimension-, task-, and multifaceted-perspectives on the AC method. Ideal for researchers, practitioners, and students alike, and well suited for courses in testing and measurement, personnel selection, HR planning and staffing, training and development, and organizational change, Assessment Center Perspectives for Talent Management Strategies is a complete and up-to-date account of the assessment center method.

Assessment Center Training für Dummies (Für Dummies)

Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Sie haben eine Einladung zu einem Assessment Center erhalten und damit die erste Hürde im Bewerbungsverfahren genommen. Nun ist es an Ihnen, sich planvoll vorzubereiten, um die vielfältigen, standardisierten Aufgaben zu bestehen. Pia Petruschke, Laura Lüneborg und Katharina Roth helfen Ihnen dabei. Sie erläutern Ziele und Absichten sowie den Aufbau eines Assessment Centers, nennen die Aufgabe der Beobachter, beschreiben die Methoden und geben Ihnen wertvolle Tipps für die Vorbereitung auf das Interview, die Präsentation und Diskussion, das Rollenspiel sowie die Gruppenübung. Auch die Materialschlachten rund um die Postkorbübung und die Fallstudien sowie Fähigkeits- und Persönlichkeitstests verlieren nach einer optimalen Vorbereitung ihren Schrecken. So können Sie bestens gebrieft und gelassen den diversen Aufgaben eines Assessment Centers entgegensehen.

Assessment Center und Risikomanagement bei Personalentscheidungen: Leitfaden zur Anwendung

Wie lässt sich die Güte der Personalauswahl und Potenzialermittlung absichern? Wie kann das damit verbundene unternehmerische Risiko beherrscht werden? Welche Möglichkeiten einer ganzheitlichen Personaldiagnostik gibt es? Assessment Center haben sich als bewährte Verfahren etabliert, wenngleich sie aufwändig sind. In der 2., vollständig überarbeiteten und erweiterten Auflage zeigt der Personalexperte Florian Schuhmacher übersichtlich und mit kritischer Würdigung auf, wie sich Assessment Center effektiv planen, durchführen und nachbereiten lassen und wie deren Ergebnisse in andere personalwirtschaftliche Disziplinen einfließen können. Als Weiterentwicklung der AC-Methode wird das Assessment Center-Interview vorgestellt, das als AC-Light in den Situationen einsetzbar ist, in denen bisher klassische Interviewformen dominiert haben. Mit hilfreichen Checklisten und Handlungsempfehlungen, auch zu Aspekten der Internationalisierung und Globalisierung.

Assessment Centers and Managerial Performance (Organizational and Occupational Psychology)

Assessment Centers and Managerial Performance presents the historical development of multiple assessment procedures with focus on those advances relevant to assessment centers. This book discusses the models of job analysis, the nature of managerial work, work-sampling assessment methods, and the process of human judgment based on the assessment center experience. Organized into 11 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the various methods to describe, evaluate, and predict management effectiveness. This text then describes a number of assessment programs, including the earliest assessment centers. Other chapters consider the five approaches to predicting managerial effectiveness, including psychometric testing, clinical evaluations by psychologists, supervisor's ratings of potentials background interviews, and assessment centers. This book discusses as well the three levels of managerial jobs, namely, supervisory, middle management, and executive. The final chapter deals with the development of standards for assessment center operations. This book is a valuable resource for psychologists.

Assessment Centers in Human Resource Management: Strategies for Prediction, Diagnosis, and Development (Applied Psychology Series)

The theme permeating this book on assessment centers is "continuity and change", describing what has remained the same and what has changed in the 50-year history of the assessment center method. One of the important changes explored is the evolution of the goals of assessment center programs and the ways in which assessment centers and their component parts have been used. Assessment Centers in Human Resource Management clearly differentiates between assessment centers used for prediction, diagnoses, and development. In addition, this book explores: assessment centers and human resource management; court cases involving assessment centers; innovations in assessment center operations; cross-cultural considerations including diversity of the workforce; and assessor training. The target audience for the text includes students who are learning about assessment centers, practitioners including human resource managers and consultants who may be considering the implementation of assessment centers, and academicians who are researching the method and wish to understand current issues.

Assessment Centers in Human Resource Management: Strategies for Prediction, Diagnosis, and Development (Applied Psychology Series)

The theme permeating this book on assessment centers is "continuity and change", describing what has remained the same and what has changed in the 50-year history of the assessment center method. One of the important changes explored is the evolution of the goals of assessment center programs and the ways in which assessment centers and their component parts have been used. Assessment Centers in Human Resource Management clearly differentiates between assessment centers used for prediction, diagnoses, and development. In addition, this book explores: assessment centers and human resource management; court cases involving assessment centers; innovations in assessment center operations; cross-cultural considerations including diversity of the workforce; and assessor training. The target audience for the text includes students who are learning about assessment centers, practitioners including human resource managers and consultants who may be considering the implementation of assessment centers, and academicians who are researching the method and wish to understand current issues.

Assessment Centre Success: Your Ultimate Resource of Practice Exercises and Sample Questions to Help you Ace the Activities, Beat the Competition and Impress Employers

Assessment Centre Success is your road map to mastering the skills, exercises and challenges that you'll be faced with when trying to secure that prized job offer. An Assessment Centre can be daunting: you are likely to face a full day of challenging exercises, tests and skilled competitors. However, with the right level of practice and preparation, you will be able to confidently tackle whatever employers may throw at you.Written by experienced Assessment Centre planner, Tony Weightman, Assessment Centre Success contains a bank of practice exercises and insider tips to help you succeed. Individual exercises are covered, including how to deliver good presentations, reports, interviews and analysis under pressure as well as group exercises such as problem solving and team presentations. Expert guidance on how to demonstrate the key skills employers are looking for helps you understand how to show yourself in the best possible light under challenging circumstances: including leadership, team work, industry knowledge, keeping calm under pressure, decision making, analytical skills, confidence and communication skills.

Assessment Centre Success: Your Ultimate Resource of Practice Exercises and Sample Questions to Help you Ace the Activities, Beat the Competition and Impress Employers

Assessment Centre Success is your road map to mastering the skills, exercises and challenges that you'll be faced with when trying to secure that prized job offer. An Assessment Centre can be daunting: you are likely to face a full day of challenging exercises, tests and skilled competitors. However, with the right level of practice and preparation, you will be able to confidently tackle whatever employers may throw at you.Written by experienced Assessment Centre planner, Tony Weightman, Assessment Centre Success contains a bank of practice exercises and insider tips to help you succeed. Individual exercises are covered, including how to deliver good presentations, reports, interviews and analysis under pressure as well as group exercises such as problem solving and team presentations. Expert guidance on how to demonstrate the key skills employers are looking for helps you understand how to show yourself in the best possible light under challenging circumstances: including leadership, team work, industry knowledge, keeping calm under pressure, decision making, analytical skills, confidence and communication skills.

Assessment Centres and Global Talent Management

Globalization, innovation, market share, identifying visionary leaders and, particularly, talent management ...are just some of the issues that benefit from using assessment and development centres. Assessment Centres and Global Talent Management focuses on topics that influence the design of the assessment centre in terms of the competencies being assessed, the exercises that are used and the nature of the event, so that they can deliver what is required; often to change organizational culture and values. Practical examples and case studies are sprinkled throughout the book as international contributors explore cross-cultural implications, and consider how the design, development and use of assessment centres should be adapted to different cultures. Some of the world's leading researchers and practitioners outline their research into new applications for assessment centre methods, showing how they have used it to design and implement specific assessment and development centres. This is a book from which practitioners can see how science informs good practice, and scholars will find the 32 chapters a rich source of ideas for conducting research into emerging issues in the field.

Assessment Centres and Global Talent Management

Globalization, innovation, market share, identifying visionary leaders and, particularly, talent management ...are just some of the issues that benefit from using assessment and development centres. Assessment Centres and Global Talent Management focuses on topics that influence the design of the assessment centre in terms of the competencies being assessed, the exercises that are used and the nature of the event, so that they can deliver what is required; often to change organizational culture and values. Practical examples and case studies are sprinkled throughout the book as international contributors explore cross-cultural implications, and consider how the design, development and use of assessment centres should be adapted to different cultures. Some of the world's leading researchers and practitioners outline their research into new applications for assessment centre methods, showing how they have used it to design and implement specific assessment and development centres. This is a book from which practitioners can see how science informs good practice, and scholars will find the 32 chapters a rich source of ideas for conducting research into emerging issues in the field.

Assessment Clear and Simple: A Practical Guide for Institutions, Departments, and General Education

The first edition of Assessment Clear and Simple quickly became the essential go-to guide for anyone who participates in the assessment process in higher education. With the increased pressure to perform assessment to demonstrate accountability, Assessment Clear and Simple is needed more than ever. This second edition of the classic resource offers a concise, step-by-step guide that helps make assessment simple, cost-efficient, and useful to an institution. It contains effective strategies for meeting the requirements of accreditation agencies, legislatures, review boards, and others, while emphasizing and showing how to move from data to actions that improve student learning. This thoroughly revised and updated edition includes many new or expanded features, including: Illustrative examples drawn from the author's experience consulting with more than 350 institutions A basic, no-frills assessment plan for departments and for general education Tips on how to integrate portfolios and e-portfolios into the assessment process Suggestions for using rubrics and alternatives to rubrics, including doing assessment for multidisciplinary work Clear instructions on how to construct a coherent institution-wide assessment system and explain it to accreditors Ideas for assigning responsibility for general education assessment Strategies for gathering information about departmental assessment while keeping the departmental workload manageable Information on how to manage assessment in times of budgetary cutbacks Praise for the Second Edition of Assessment Clear and Simple "Walvoord's approach to assessment is wonderfully straightforward; it is also effective in facilitating faculty engagement in assessment. We've applied a number of her methods to our campus assessment efforts with success. This book makes assessment both manageable and useful in improving and enhancing student learning."—Martha L. A. Stassen, director of assessment, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and president, New England Educational Assessment Network (NEEAN) "Walvoord's work clearly presents the basics for getting started in assessment of student learning while honestly addressing the complexities of assessment when driven by faculty passion for student learning. This book is a valuable resource for the novice as well as the developing experts who are leading their institutions in academic assessment."—Bobbi Allen, faculty assessment director, Delta College

Assessment Clear and Simple: A Practical Guide for Institutions, Departments, and General Education

The first edition of Assessment Clear and Simple quickly became the essential go-to guide for anyone who participates in the assessment process in higher education. With the increased pressure to perform assessment to demonstrate accountability, Assessment Clear and Simple is needed more than ever. This second edition of the classic resource offers a concise, step-by-step guide that helps make assessment simple, cost-efficient, and useful to an institution. It contains effective strategies for meeting the requirements of accreditation agencies, legislatures, review boards, and others, while emphasizing and showing how to move from data to actions that improve student learning. This thoroughly revised and updated edition includes many new or expanded features, including: Illustrative examples drawn from the author's experience consulting with more than 350 institutions A basic, no-frills assessment plan for departments and for general education Tips on how to integrate portfolios and e-portfolios into the assessment process Suggestions for using rubrics and alternatives to rubrics, including doing assessment for multidisciplinary work Clear instructions on how to construct a coherent institution-wide assessment system and explain it to accreditors Ideas for assigning responsibility for general education assessment Strategies for gathering information about departmental assessment while keeping the departmental workload manageable Information on how to manage assessment in times of budgetary cutbacks Praise for the Second Edition of Assessment Clear and Simple "Walvoord's approach to assessment is wonderfully straightforward; it is also effective in facilitating faculty engagement in assessment. We've applied a number of her methods to our campus assessment efforts with success. This book makes assessment both manageable and useful in improving and enhancing student learning."—Martha L. A. Stassen, director of assessment, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and president, New England Educational Assessment Network (NEEAN) "Walvoord's work clearly presents the basics for getting started in assessment of student learning while honestly addressing the complexities of assessment when driven by faculty passion for student learning. This book is a valuable resource for the novice as well as the developing experts who are leading their institutions in academic assessment."—Bobbi Allen, faculty assessment director, Delta College

The Assessment Debate: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary Education Issues)

An authoritative reference on one of education's hottest topics, describing how the latest testing and assessment tools can be used to help improve student performance.In this comprehensive review of the wealth of techniques by which students can be assessed, Valerie J. Janesick points out that the politics of schooling often gets in the way of student progress. "High-stakes" standardized testing is frequently based on poorly constructed, unfair tests that encourage "teaching to the test," which actually impedes educational goals.Authentic testing relies more on essays and writing samples, performances, demonstrations, and role-plays. Although it is fairer and provides a measure of student growth and progress, it requires more effort by teachers, who also require extra training. Besides discussing authentic assessment in detail, The Assessment Debate includes a chronology, an annotated directory of organizations supporting performance assessment, a list of state coordinators for testing reform, and state-by-state report cards.

Assessment Essentials: Planning, Implementing, and Improving Assessment in Higher Education (The\effective Practices For Academic Leaders Archive Online Briefings For Managing Your Academic Unit ... That You Can Access At Your Desktop The Effective Practices For Academic Leaders Online Archive ·28 Concise Online Briefings Enable Busy Leaders To Quickly Get Up To Speed On An Issue ·written By Major Scholars And Experienced Administrators ·each Briefing Provides The Essential Knowledge For)

A comprehensive expansion to the essential higher education assessment text This second edition of Assessment Essentials updates the bestselling first edition, the go-to resource on outcomes assessment in higher education. In this thoroughly revised edition, you will find, in a familiar framework, nearly all new material, examples from more than 100 campuses, and indispensable descriptions of direct and indirect assessment methods that have helped to educate faculty, staff, and students about assessment. Outcomes assessment is of increasing importance in higher education, especially as new technologies and policy proposals spotlight performance-based success measures. Leading authorities Trudy Banta and Catherine Palomba draw on research, standards, and best practices to address the timeless and timeliest issues in higher education accountability. New topics include: Using electronic portfolios in assessment Rubrics and course-embedded assessment Assessment in student affairs Assessing institutional effectiveness As always, the step-by-step approach of Assessment Essentials will guide you through the process of developing an assessment program, from the research and planning phase to implementation and beyond, with more than 100 examples along the way. Assessment data are increasingly being used to guide everything from funding to hiring to curriculum decisions, and all faculty and staff will need to know how to use them effectively. Perfect for anyone new to the assessment process, as well as for the growing number of assessment professionals, this expanded edition of Assessment Essentials will be an essential resource on every college campus.