Assessment Resources Guide
Overview
This guide provides a list of books and journals in WMU libraries, as well as websites on assessment, that are meant to support those working on assessment at WMU.
Article Databases
Articles on assessment are found mostly in education databases, but assessment in other disciplines can be found in their subject specific databases.
Indexes more than 700 English-language periodicals in education. Coverage: 1983 to the present, abstracts from 1994. Updated weekly.
The Educational Resources Information Center indexes and abstracts over 2,000 journals and more than 450,000 reports in education and related fields. Some documents are available full text, the rest are on microfiche in the Education Library. Covers 1966-present. Updated monthly.
This is the FirstSearch version, Tutorial
This database is also available from ProQuest and from the US government.
Indexes popular magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers and trade publications in a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Full-text available for over 2,500 journals. Coverage from 1971.
Books
Action plan for outcomes assessment in your library
By Peter Hernon and Robert E. Dugan, Chicago : American Library Association, 2002.
Z675.U5 H54 2002 (Waldo Lib reserves)
Assessmen of Student Achievement
By Norman E. Gronlund, Boston : Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, c2006.
LB3060.65 .G766 2006 (Ed Library)
Assessment in Practice: Putting Principles to Work on College Campuses
By Trudy W. Banta et. al. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996.
LB 2366.2 .A88 1996 (Ed lib)
Building a Scholarship of Assessment
By Trudy W. Banta and Associates. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002.
LB 2366 .B85 2002 (Ed lib)
Classroom assessment and research: An update on uses, approaches, and research findings
Ed. by Thomas Angelo, San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1998.
LB1025.2 .N458x no.75 (Ed Lib)
Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers
By Thomas A. Angelo and K. Patricia Cross. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.
LB 2822.75 .A54 1993 (Ed lib)
Competence-based assessment techniques
By Shirley Fletcher, London : Kogan Page ; Sterling, VA : Stylus, 2000. HF5549.5.T7 F553x 2000 (Waldo Lib)
Designing and assessing courses and curricula : a practical guide
By Robert M. Diamond, San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2008.
LB2361.5 .D5 2008 (Ed Lib)
Discussion-based online teaching to enhance student learning : theory, practice, and assessment
by Tisha Bender, Sterling, Va. : Stylus, 2003.
LB1044.87 .B43 2003 (Ed Lib)
Hallmarks of Effective Outcomes Assessment: Assessment Update Collections
Ed. by Trudy W. Banta. San Franciso: Jossey-Bass, 2004.
LB 2822.75 .H35 2004 (Ed Lib)
How to write and use instructional objectives
By Norman E. Gronlund. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Merrill, 2000.
LB1027.4 .G76 2000 (Ed Lib)
Learner-centered assessment on college campuses : shifting the focus from teaching to learning
By Mary E. Huba & Jann E. Freed, Boston : Allyn and Bacon, 2000.
LB2331 .H83 2000 (Ed Lib)
Making a difference : outcomes of a decade of assessment in higher education
By Trudy W. Banta & Associates, San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 1993.
LA227.4 .M35 1993 (Ed Lib)
Making their own way : narratives for transforming higher education to promote self-development
By Marcia B. Baxter Magolda, Sterling, Va. : Stylus Pub., 2001.
LB2424 .B39 2001 (Ed Lib)
Writing instructional objectives for teaching and assessment
By Norman E. Gronlund. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Merrill/Prentice Hall, 2004.
LB1027.4 .G76 2004
Selected Journals
Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education
1997-2000 in ProQuest, the rest from Interlibrary Loan.
Assessment in Education
1997-2000 from ProQuest, the rest from Interlibrary Loan.
Assessment Journal
1997-2003 from ABI Inform, the rest from Interlibrary Loan.
Assessment Update
Full text online, coverage from 1997.
Chrinicle of Higher Education
LB 2300 .C48x (Ed Lib. current issues until microfilm received)
Online from 1998.
Higher Education Quarterly
L 16 .U55 (Ed. Lib) 1987-date
Online 1997-date.
International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education
Online 2000-date.
Journal of Technology, Learning, and Asessment
Online 2002-date.
Liberal Education
LB 2301 .A5 (Ed. Lib.) 1987-date.
Online in ProQuest 1998-date.
Web Resources
ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation
Offers access to full-text books, reports, journal articles, newsletter articles and papers that address educational measurement, evaluation, and learning theory. Also includes a test review locator database. http://ericae.net/