Method Development for Assessing a Diversity Goal

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Author(s): Joan Hawthorne (University of North Dakota, USA), Tatyana Dumova (University of North Dakota, USA), April Bradley (University of North Dakota, USA)and Daphne Pederson (University of North Dakota, USA)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 19
Source title: Handbook of Research on Assessment Technologies, Methods, and Applications in Higher Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Christopher S. Schreiner (University of Guam, Guam)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-667-9.ch024

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Surveys, Measurements & Response Systems

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In this chapter the authors describe a method developed to assess the outcome of a “cultural familiarity” general education goal. Challenges in defining, measuring, and providing summary information on variables of interest are discussed. We review the process of developing our own “oral examination” assessment method, explain our rationale for using this particular method, and suggest that locallydeveloped methods – this one and others – may have particular benefits that make them especially useful for program review and revision. In addition, we provide insight about how this specific method could be adapted to provide meaningful data for other goals that are similarly difficult to assess in a higher education environment.

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