Author： Pike Gary
Publisher： Springer Publishing Company
ISSN： 0361-0365
Source： Research in Higher Education, Vol.47, Iss.2, 2006-03, pp. : 177-195
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Abstract
College and university administrators, as well as faculty members, are more likely to take responsibility for student learning if they believe that the assessment data represent their students and suggest specific actions for improvement. This study examined whether it is feasible to develop scalelets (i.e., focused measures, usually consisting of four or five items) that provide dependable metrics for assessing student learning at the college or department level. A generalizability analysis of 12 scalelets from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) indicated that the scalelets provided dependable measures of educational effectiveness with 25–50 respondents.
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