Effectively involving faculty in the assessment of student engagement
✍ Scribed by Thomas F. Nelson Laird; Robert Smallwood; Amanda Suniti Niskodé-Dossett; Amy K. Garver
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Weight
- 67 KB
- Volume
- 2009
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0271-0579
- DOI
- 10.1002/ir.287
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
This chapter discusses four roles—source of data, audience, data analyst, and beneficiary of assessment knowledge—faculty can play in the assessment of student engagement on college and university campuses.
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