Assessment Strategies in Technical Services

Assessment Strategies in Technical Services
Author: Kimberley A. Edwards
Publisher: ALA Editions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-05-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780838918579

Are you spending money wisely? Can you prove it? The call for efficiency and evidence-based practice has sparked an examination traditional assessment and statistic-gathering.

Assessing Service Quality

Assessing Service Quality
Author: Peter Hernon
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2015-05-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838913105

This extensively revised and updated edition explores even further the ways technology influences both the experiences of library customers and the ways libraries themselves can assess those experiences.

Telling the Technical Services Story

Telling the Technical Services Story
Author: Kimberley A. Edwards
Publisher: ALA Editions
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2021-04-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780838949467

The real-world initiatives and straightforward advice in this collection will embolden technical services managers and administrators to demonstrate the value of their work to stakeholders throughout their organization.

Technical Services in the 21st Century

Technical Services in the 21st Century
Author: Samantha Schmehl Hines
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2021-01-08
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1800438303

By showcasing the work of technical services, and the ground-breaking changes they have encountered, this edited collection provides readers with an opportunity to re-assess the opportunities and challenges for library administration, and to understand how libraries should be managed in the future.

Assessment Strategies for Online Learning

Assessment Strategies for Online Learning
Author: Dianne Conrad
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2018-07-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1771992328

Assessment has provided educational institutions with information about student learning outcomes and the quality of education for many decades. But has it informed practice and been fully incorporated into the learning cycle? Conrad and Openo argue that the potential inherent in many of the new learning environments being explored by educators and students has not been fully realized. In this investigation of a variety of assessment methods and learning approaches, the authors aim to discover the tools that engage learners and authentically evaluate education. They insist that moving to new learning environments, specifically those online and at a distance, afford opportunities for educators to adopt only the best practices of traditional face-to-face assessment while exploring evaluation tools made available by a digital learning environment in the hopes of arriving at methods that capture the widest set of learner skills and attributes.

Techniques for Electronic Resource Management

Techniques for Electronic Resource Management
Author: Jill Emery
Publisher: ALA Editions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-10-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780838919040

Whether a single team manages electronic resources or responsibility is spread across your library, this book will be your go-to ERM reference.

Assessing the Online Learner

Assessing the Online Learner
Author: Rena M. Palloff
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2008-12-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0470460148

Written by Rena M. Palloff and Keith Pratt, experts in the field of online teaching and learning, this hands-on resource helps higher education professionals understand the fundamentals of effective online assessment. It offers guidance for designing and implementing creative assessment practices tied directly to course activities to measure student learning. The book is filled with illustrative case studies, authentic assessments based in real-life application of concepts, and collaborative activities that assess the quality of student learning rather than relying on the traditional methods of measuring the amount of information retained.

Needs and Capacity Assessment Strategies for Health Education and Health Promotion - BOOK ALONE

Needs and Capacity Assessment Strategies for Health Education and Health Promotion - BOOK ALONE
Author: Gary Gilmore
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2011-08-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 144960210X

Needs and Capacity Assessment Strategies for Health Education and Health Promotion, Fourth Edition provides practitioners with a handbook that can be used in the classroom and in the field. It focuses on realistic needs and capacity assessment strategies with considerations for preparation, implementation, and incorporation of findings into the planning process. It also provides an overview of settings, specific target audiences, approaches to assessing needs, and recommendations for addressing problems encountered along the way. The Fourth Edition continues to be reader friendly and worthwhile in terms of practical recommendations. The twelve chapters are realistic process discussions with mini-examples at the end based on the authors’ experiences and those of others in the field. Case studies provide insight into various combinations of strategies used in a variety of settings. Two special articles at the end of the book provide further insight regarding community risk estimation and the use of metaphors to gain a better understanding of the perceived needs and capacities that are assessed.

Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills

Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills
Author: Patrick Griffin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2014-10-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9401793956

This second volume of papers from the ATC21STM project deals with the development of an assessment and teaching system of 21st century skills. Readers are guided through a detailed description of the methods used in this process. The first volume was published by Springer in 2012 (Griffin, P., McGaw, B. & Care, E., Eds., Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills, Dordrecht: Springer). The major elements of this new volume are the identification and description of two 21st century skills that are amenable to teaching and learning: collaborative problem solving, and learning in digital networks. Features of the skills that need to be mirrored in their assessment are identified so that they can be reflected in assessment tasks. The tasks are formulated so that reporting of student performance can guide implementation in the classroom for use in teaching and learning. How simple tasks can act as platforms for development of 21st century skills is demonstrated, with the concurrent technical infrastructure required for its support. How countries with different languages and cultures participated and contributed to the development process is described. The psychometric qualities of the online tasks developed are reported, in the context of the robustness of the automated scoring processes. Finally, technical and educational issues to be resolved in global projects of this nature are outlined.