Assessment in Use: An Exploration of Student Learning in Research and Practice

Marjorie L. Dorimé-Williams, Cindy Cogswell, & Gianina Baker   |    Volume 17 Issue 1  |   

While scholarship on assessment and evaluation has grown significantly over the past forty years, writing tends to focus on the “how-to” implementation of assessment practices within a classroom or programmatic context. While individual case studies and practical manuals offer valuable contributions for implementation, there is a need for assessment research that supports practices that can highlights interventions to inform practice and positively impact student learning outcomes. To this end, we reviewed scholarly literature to explore the degree to which assessment research discusses and informs student learning. We then performed a content analysis examining how academic research on assessment discusses, analyzes, and evaluates student learning and student success. We identify five specific categories of assessment scholarship and offer implications for future assessment practice and research.

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