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Faculty Perception And Use Of Learning-Centered Strategies To Assess Student Performance, Matthew Lynn Johnson Aug 2013

Faculty Perception And Use Of Learning-Centered Strategies To Assess Student Performance, Matthew Lynn Johnson

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

In this study, the researcher explored collegiate faculty use and perception of learning- centered strategies to assess student performance on various learning tasks. Through this study, the researcher identified the assessment strategies that faculty participants most frequently used, as well as the strategies that they perceived to be most effective. In addition to an analysis of the most frequently used assessment strategies for the entire sample, the researcher also investigated differences in strategies used by faculty members in specific discipline sub-groups: Arts and Humanities, Natural and Health Sciences, and Social and Behavioral Sciences. Participants taking part in this study were …


A Multicase Study Analysis Of The Intersection Of Institutional And State Policy And Educational Innovation, Kathleen Patrice Brock May 2013

A Multicase Study Analysis Of The Intersection Of Institutional And State Policy And Educational Innovation, Kathleen Patrice Brock

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

American higher education institutions, specifically public universities and colleges, have reached a key point in their histories and it is within this moment that these institutions must transform operations, deliver education in new ways, and demonstrate unquestionable social and economic impact. Universities and colleges must increase productivity and find new ways to lower costs, increase efficiencies, and improve quality while delivering education to a greater mass of people over a shortened period of time. “A Multicase Study Analysis of the Intersection of Institutional and State Policy and Educational Innovation” investigates the means by which public research institutions are attempting to …