Assessment of Learning Outcomes

Student Learning Outcomes Assessment: A Component of Program Assessment

Assessment efforts in higher education have evolved as a response to demands by external forces such as legislative and accrediting bodies asking for better accountability evidence.1 Further, an executive order required all federally approved accrediting organizations to include evidence of institutional outcomes in their criteria for accreditation.2 This mandate requested that each program des...

assessment of the efficiency of s.p.g.c refineries using network dea

data envelopment analysis (dea) is a powerful tool for measuring relative efficiency of organizational units referred to as decision making units (dmus). in most cases dmus have network structures with internal linking activities. traditional dea models, however, consider dmus as black boxes with no regard to their linking activities and therefore do not provide decision makers with the reasons...

Reading Strategies and Learning outcomes

Assessment, Accountability, and Student Learning Outcomes

In the last fifteen years two trends have gained prominence throughout higher education: assessment and accountability. For various historical reasons, and the source of considerable confusion, both are erroneously referred to as "assessment." The first, "assessment for excellence," is an information feedback process to guide individual students, faculty members, programs, and schools in improv...

individual qualities and integrative motivation and their prediction of non-linguistic outcomes of learning english in intermediate iranian students: a psychological perspective

abstract this study investigated the predictability of variables from a motivational framework as well as individuals qualities to predict three non-linguistic outcomes of language learning. gardners socio-educational model with its measures has been used in the current study. individual qualities presented in this study include (1) age, (2) gender, and (3) language learning experience. the...