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Closing the Loop: How an Assessment Project Paved the Way for GE Reform Call for Contributions Value‐Added? Committing to Quality: Guidelines for Assessment and Accountability in Higher Education Creating a Cadre of Assessment Gurus (at Your Institution) Assessment as a Communication and Management Tool for Presidents and Trustees Assessing Institutional Assessment: One Institution's Progress in Developing Quality Assessment Practices From the States: Learning and Accreditation: The Elites Push Back     

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Assessment Annotations: A Simple and (Almost) Painless Way to Document Assessment of Student Learning Editor's Notes: Program Review as a Catalyst for Change Mining Faculty Complaints for Valuable Assessment Clues Practical Tips for Assessment in Practice An Improvement Strategy for General Education     

Identifying Essential Topics in General and Special Education Introductory Assessment Textbooks

We reviewed the five top-selling introductory assessment textbooks in both general and special education to identify topics contained in textbooks and to determine the extent of agreement among authors regarding the essentialness of topics within and across discipline. Content analysis across the 10 assessment textbooks yielded 73 topics related to 13 categories: Decisions, Law, Technical Adequacy, Plan Assessment, Create Assessment, Score Assessment, Assessment Target, Assessment Type, Assessment Method, Interpret Assessment, Communicate Assessment Results, Assessment Population, and Computer-Assisted Assessment. Many of the topics identified were consistent with traditional assessment expectations of general and special education environments, while other, arguably important, topics were not identified as essential. The idea of core assessment topics for all teachers is introduced.     

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Accreditation and Assessment: The Root of My Teaching Metamorphosis Call for Contributions Editor's Notes: Addressing a Question of Credibility Do We Practice What We Preach? The Accountability of an Assessment Office Assessing Assessment: Strategies for Providing Feedback on Assessment Practices Lessons Learned: Building a Sustainable Assessment Program in the United Arab Emirates Assessment Carols Memo: A New Development…     

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Can Assessment Loops Be Closed? A Pop‐Culture–Inspired Assessment of Intercultural Awareness: Reflections from Health Care Education How a Research Faculty Becomes Interested in Assessment A Pedagogical Approach to Assessment Assessment Measures: Developing Surveys of Student Engagement     

我国战略环境影响评价立法现状评析

对规划层次的战略环境影响评价是我国环境影响评价制度的一项重要内容,也是《环境影响评价法》在立法方面的一个重大突破,它为我国环境影响评价工作的顺利开展提供了权威性的法律依据。然而战略环境影响评价是对建设项目环境影响评价的进一步延伸和深化,是一个全新的领域,国内对其具体操作的基本理论尚缺乏广泛深入的研究,本文拟对其具体操作的实施和保障机制以及立法现状加以研究和评析,希望对其顺利实施有所裨益。     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
National Curriculum Assessment: A Review of Policy 1987–1994 Richard Daugherty (1995)
Beyond Testing: Towards a Theory of Educational Assessment Caroline Gipps (1994)
Effective Assessment and the Improvement of Education: A Tribute to Desmond Nuttall Roger Murphy and Patricia Broadfoot (1995)
Working with Parents of Children with Special Needs Hornby, G.
Changing Theories and Practices of Discipline Roger Slee (1995)
Christian Assemblies for Primary Schools Swain, Revd. S. (1995)     

The changing prepositions of assessment practice: assessment of,for and as learning

Book Reviewed in this article: Feedback for Learning S. ASKEW (Ed.) Promoting Assessment as Learning R. Dann Developing Portfolios for Learning and Assessment V. Klenowski     

Enhanced use of educational accountability data to monitor educational progress of Australian students with focus on Indigenous students

Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability - In Australia, under the National Assessment Plan, educational accountability testing in literacy and numeracy (NAPLAN) is undertaken with all...     

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Student Interpretation of Selected Degree Qualifications Profile Outcomes Call for Contributions Editor's Notes: Ingenuity: A New Super Skill, a New Assessment Challenge, a New National Conversation Applying Qualitative Techniques to Assessment in Student Affairs Developing and Implementing a Multidisciplinary Approach to Assess CT in General Education Assessment Measures The Updated National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE)     

OVERVIEW OF THE INTERNATIONAL HIGH‐LEVEL CONSULTATION ON POLICY ISSUES OF QUALITY ASSESSMENT AND INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION

This consultation, which lasted three days (5‐7 May 1993), featured discussions among high‐ranking eastern and central European officials responsible for higher education, UNESCO staff members, and invited experts. The discussions were organized under the following rubrics: Quality Assessment in Higher Education: Issues and Concerns; Institutional Self‐Evaluation and External Quality Assessment; Policy Implications of Quality Management in Higher Education; National Evaluation Bodies; the Role and Functions of an International Body, sponsored by CEPES‐UNESCO, currently being formed: the European Group on Academic Assessment; and Quality Assessment and Institutional Accreditation.     

中学英语教学评价之管窥

评价是中学英语教育课程的重要组成部分。目前英语教学评价体系正处于改革创新阶段．我们应着重在以下几方面作出努力：评价应保证教学目标的实现;评价应纳入学习过程;评价应促进教学和教师的发展;应建立多元化、多样性的评价体系。     

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Expanding Assessment Perspectives: The Importance of Student Leadership in Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Call for Contributions Empowering Faculty and Students with Assessment Data Including Faculty in Accreditation Preparation: Boon or Bane? Relating Students' Grades and Measures of Specific Outcomes Assessment Measures: The AAC&U VALUE Rubrics Community College Strategies: Creating Change and Buy‐In for Assessment through Faculty Learning Communities     

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Do Good Assessment Practices Measure Up to the Principles of Assessment? Call for Contributions Healthy Assessment: What Nursing Schools Can Teach Us about Effective Assessment of Student Learning Development of a National Survey for Secondary Mathematics Teacher Education Programs From the States: New Looks in Specialized Accreditation Community College Strategies: Curriculum‐Level Assessment: Finding Meaning and Focus for Real Results     

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SLO‐Based Grading Makes Assessment an Integral Part of Teaching Call for Contributions Editor's Notes: Assessing Assessment's ROI Assessment Plans: A Tool for Sanity Lessons from Multiple Institutional Assessment Measures of Specific Student Learning Outcomes and Satisfaction Assessment Measures: The ACT Engage Survey Community College Strategies: Student Learning Assessment: A Program‐Level Model     

The first and second reading Standard Assessment Tasks at Key Stage 1: a comparison based on a five-school study

This paper assesses the value that can be put on the reading (National Curriculum En 2) Standard Assessment Task scores as indicators of what children are achieving in reading and whether reading standards are rising. The results of a cross-sectional study of a sample of all the Year 2 children (171 in 1991; 171 in 1992) from five randomly selected primary schools within one Local Education Authority (LEA) are presented. Pupils’ scores on The Primary Reading Test (PRT) (France, 1981) and the reading Standard Assessment Task score elicited by them in the previous half term are compared. Results show an improvement in the attainment level of children in 1992 compared to those in 1991 on Standard Assessment Tasks with a higher percentage achieving Level 3 and fewer on Level 1. However, examination of the means for each year group indicates that the mean PRT score for each Standard Assessment Task level is significantly lower in 1992 than 1991. Conclusions, based on such a small study, are tentative. However, it would seem that there is a need to view apparently rising standards, as measured solely by the Standard Assessment Task results, with a degree of caution.     

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Origins of the WASC Assessment Leadership Academy Call for Contributions Editor's Notes: Parallel Paths to Progress in Assessment in Europe and the United States The Impact of the First Three Years of the WASC Assessment Leadership Academy Restructuring the Writing Program at Berkeley City College: Or How We Learned to Love Assessment and Use It to Improve Student Learning Aligning Outcomes Throughout the Curriculum Assessment Leadership from the Trenches: Facilitating the Move from “Grudging Compliance” to “Creative Ownership” Recommended Reading     

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ARTICLES Took Survey. Got Shirt: Using Effective Educational Practices to Maximize NSSE Response Rates Matthew L. Feldmann and Keli Jackson My Own Worst Enemy: Five Ways My Best Intentions Impair Assessment Jeremy D. Penn Repairing a Broken Assessment System Christie Hill Magoulias Assessment in Times of Turbulence: Using Assessment Tools to Understand and Change Processes in Student Services Jennifer Massey, Bruce Griffiths, and Nanci Corrigan COLUMNS Assessment Measures: The Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) Surveys Gary R. Pike Community College Strategies: Improving Faculty Ownership of General Education and Its Assessment Rose Mince, Lynne A. Mason, and Nancy Bogage     

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Introduction Objectives and Approach Framework Organization of the Report Phase One: System-Level Assessment Goals of System-Level Assessment How Systems Establish a Structure for Such Assessment How Systems Identify Misalignments How Systems Allocate Resources Need for Standardized Data and Course Offerings Beyond Assessment: Promoting Workforce Improvement Multiple Benefits Phase Two: Assessing How Well Providers Meet Customers' Needs Model One: Intermediary Assesses or Guides Provider's Process of Assessment Model Two: Intermediary Conducts the Assessment Model Three: Provider Conducts the Assessment Model Four: Student Competencies Are Assessed Strengths and Weaknesses of the Four Approaches Choosing the Right Model for Phase Two Purposes of Assessment Level of Authority Level of Resources Centralization of Operations System Heterogeneity Provider Complexity Within a System Summary Three Steps for Assessing Providers Step One: Identify Goals Step Two: Select Measures Step Three: Evaluate Performance Using Measures Measurement Validity and Reliability Bringing It All Together: Integrating All Three Steps Relevance of the Three Assessment Steps to Assessors Conclusions and Recommendations Phase One Recommendations Phase Two Recommendations Appendices A: Corporate Professional Development and Training B: Process Auditors—Academic Audit C: State Higher Education Boards D: Balanced Scorecard E: Certifiers of Student Competencies F: On-line Sources Notes References     

公众参与建设项目环境影响评价实证分析--存在的问题及有效性分析

通过对实践中公众参与环评的介绍，剖析其存在的主要问题，并对目前公众参与的有效性进行了实证分析，说明我国有必要增强实践中公众参与环境影响评价的有效性。