Content

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Special Features:

• Combining Learning and Assessment to Improve Science Education

• Creating Seamless K-16 Pathways: Role of Assessment

Articles:

• Quality and Utility of the Multi-Tiered Instruction Self-Efficacy Scale
• Exploring the Success of Transfer Programs For Community College Students

Book Reviews:

• Coming to Terms with Student Outcomes Assessment: Faculty and Administrators’ Journeys to Integrating Assessment in Their Work and Institutional Culture
• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Volume 5, Summer 2011

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Articles:

• Identifying Barriers in Implementing Outcomes-Based Assessment Program Review: A Grounded Theory Analysis

• Measuring Students’ Cognitive Engagement on Assessment Tests: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Short Form of the Cognitive Engagement Scale

• Can Institutions Have Quality Programming Without Utilizing a Systematic Outcomes-Based Assessment Process?

Special Feature:

• Reflective (Ac)Counting: Institutional Research, Evaluation, & Assessment in a Time of Cholera

Reviews:

• Review of Academically Adrift
• Review of Higher Education Assessments

September 2010, Volume 4, Issue 1

Comments from the Editor
Keston H. Fulcher

Assessing Honor Code Effectiveness: Results of a Multipronged Approach from a Five Year Study
Sally Sledge and Pam Pringle

Evolving from Quantity to Quality: A New Yardstick for Assessment
Keston H. Fulcher and Chris D. Orem

January 2009, Volume 3, Issue 1

Comments from the Editor
Keston H. Fulcher

Assessment at North Carolina State University: Adapting to Change in the Workplace
Marilee J. Bresciani, Jane H. Griffiths, and Jon P. Rust

Developments and Changes Resulting from Writing and Thinking Assessment
Teresa Flateby

Does it Matter How Data are Collected? Analyzing A Comparison of Testing Conditions and the Implications for Validity
Carol L. Barry and Sara J. Finney

January 2008, Volume 2, Issue 1

Comments from the Editor
Keston H. Fulcher

"What Do I Do with the Data Now?": Analyzing Assessment Information for Accountability and Improvement
Suzanne L. Pieper, Keston H. Fulcher, Donna L. Sundre and T. Dary Erwin

Exploring Misunderstanding in Collaborative Research Between a World Power and a Developing Country
Marilee J. Bresciani

Detecting Items That Function Differently for Two- and Four-Year College Students
Amy Thelk

June 2007, Volume 1, Issue 2

Comments from the Editor
Keston H. Fulcher

Examining College Students' Gains in General Education
Dena A. Pastor, Pamela K. Kaliski, and Brandi A. Weiss

Assessing Service-Learning
Pamela Steinke and Peggy Fitch

Program Assessment in Academic Libraries : An Introduction for Assessment Practitioners
Eric Ackermann

March 2006, Volume 1, Issue 1

Inaugural Issue
The goal of Research & Practice in Assessment is to serve the higher education assessment community as a research journal focusing on the broad range of issues facing assessment professionals. Fittingly, this first issue spotlights a diverse range of topics.

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Comments from the Editor
Robin D. Anderson

Solutions for Missing Data in Structural Equation Modeling
Rufus L. Carter

Peer Review and Organizational Learning: Improving the Assessment of Student Learning
Craig Herndon

Writing Across the Curriculum Works: The Impact of Writing Emphasis upon Senior Exit Writing Samples
Dennis R. Ridley and Edward D. Smith

Using Effect Size to Assist in NSSE Reporting
Robert Springer