Review of “Coming to Terms with Student Outcomes Assessment”

Dorothy C. Doolittle   |    Volume Six: Winter  |   

Coming to Terms with Student Outcomes Assess­ment: Faculty and Administrators’ Journeys to Integrating Assessment in Their Work and Institutional Culture pro­vides evidence that others have travelled that road of im­plementing assessment on college campuses, and, in fact, found like-minded others and success. Maki gives a brief introduction to the 14 stories of assessment adventures. The focus of the book, however, is how 14 institutions and the drivers that led the charges each accomplished their goals of incorporating student outcomes assessment into a major, a program, general education, or campus-wide. The institutions represented are varied; they include commu­nity colleges, small liberal arts colleges, and large research universities. Each chapter, written by people who were there on that rocky road to institutionalizing assessment, reflects the style and viewpoint of the authors. Chapter authors offer humorous slants, details of their programs, forms, or a general overview of their process.

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