Selected Resources on Student Learning and Assessment

(From members of the Cal Poly community)

Student Learning

American Association of Colleges and Universities, College Learning for the New Global Century (PDF).

L. Dee Fink, Creating Significant Learning Experiences: An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses, Jossey-Bass, 2003.

P. King and K.S. Kitchener, Developing Reflective Judgment, Jossey-Bass, 1994.

John C Bean, Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom, Jossey-Bass, 2001.

Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School, NRC, National Academy Press, 2000.

Edited by Richard P. Keeling, Learning Reconsidered: A Campus-Wide Focus on the Student Experience, published by NASPA and ACPA (Advancing Student Affairs, Engaging Students), 2004.

Edited by NASPA, Learning Reconsidered 2: A Practical Guide to Implementing a Campus-Wide Focus on the Student Experience, 2006.

C. Knapper and A. J. Cropley, Life-long Learning in Higher Education, 3rd Edition, e-book, 2000.

B.J. Duch, S.E. Groh, D.E. Allen, Eds, The Power of Problem-Based Learning, Stylus Publishing, 2001.

Marcia Baxter Magolda, Making Their Own Way: Narratives for Transforming Higher Education to Promote Self-Development, Stylus Publishing, 2001.

Daniel A. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, Berkeley Publishing Group, 2006.

Assessment

L.W. Anderson, & D.R. Krathwohl, D. R. Eds, A Taxonomy for Teaching Learning and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., 2001.

Mary J. Allen, Assessing General Education Programs, Anker Publishing, 2006.

N. E.Gronlund, Assessment of Student Achievement, Pearson Education, Inc., 2006.

Marilee Bresciani, Carrie Zelna and James Anderson, Assessing Student Learning and Development: A Handbook for Practitioners, published by NASPA (Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education), 2004

T. W.Banta, Ed., Assessing Student Learning in the Disciplines, Jossey-Bass, 2007.

J. R. Wilkerson, & W. S. Lang, Assessing Teacher Dispositions: Five Standards-Based Steps to Valid Measurement Using the DAATS Model. Corwin Press, 2007.

Trudy W. Banta and Associates, Building A Scholarship of Assessment, Jossey-Bass, 2003.

Amy Driscoll and Swarup Wood, Developing Outcomes-Based Assessment for Learner-Centered Education: A Faculty Introduction, Stylus Publishing, 2007.

Peter D. Hart Research Associates for American Association of Colleges and Universities,
;“How Should Colleges Assess and Improve Student Learning? (PDF)”

M.E. Huba and J.E. Freed, Learner-Centered Assessment on College Campuses, Allyn and Bacon, 2000.

N. E. Gronlund, Writing Instructional Objectives for Teaching and Assessment,
Prentice Hall, 2003.

New in 2008!

Articles and presentations by Cal Poly faculty on student learning and assessment can be viewed in the Library's new Digital Commons.
Note: if you have an article or presentation on student learning and assessment that you would like to have posted, please contact Delores Lencioni (dlencion@calpoly.edu) in Academic Programs.