The collegiate learning assessment: Facts and fantasies

Evaluation Review

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 415-439

  Klein, Stephen ^a   Benjamin, Roger ^a   Shavelson, Richard ^b   Bolus, Roger ^c  

^a Council for Aid to Education ^*

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Research Solutions Group

Author keywords

Higher education assessment; Performance testing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDARD; STUDENT; THINKING; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; COMMUNICATION; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; LEARNING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROGRAM EVALUATION; STUDENTS; THINKING; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 34548295490     PISSN: 0193841X     EISSN: 15523926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0193841X07303318     Document Type: Article

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