Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is assessment? -- The many settings for student learning and assessment -- What are effective assessment practices? -- Learning goals : articulating what you most want students to learn -- Designing curricula to help students learn what's important -- How will your evidence of student learning be used? -- Planning assessments in academic programs -- Planning assessments in general education, co-curricula, and other settings -- Guiding and coordinating assessment efforts -- Helping everyone learn what to do -- Supporting assessment efforts -- Keeping assessment cost-effective -- Collaborating on assessment -- Valuing assessment and the people who contribute -- Designing rubrics to plan and assess assignments -- Creating effective assignments -- Writing multiple-choice and other objective tests -- Assembling evidence of student learning into portfolios -- Selecting published instruments -- Other assessment tools -- Assessing the hard-to-assess -- Setting meaningful standards and targets -- Summarizing and storing evidence of student learning -- Analyzing evidence of student learning -- Sharing evidence of student learning -- Using evidence of student learning to inform important decisions.