Student-Focused Learning and Assessment

This contributed volume explores institutional and programmatic policies and practices which actively engage students as partners in improving student learning. This entails an examination of the degree to which students are partners in the assessment and learning processes and the characteristics of these partnerships. This volume showcases student partnerships, as well as presents a history of institutional culture affecting student learning, the role of students in teaching and learning, and brings student voices and perspectives to bare through research from a variety of institutional types. Case studies, current programs and activities, and a model for culturally-responsive assessment are highlighted to better understand student-focused learning and assessment. Implications for faculty, staff, and administrators are questioned. Overall, this volume links research to practice, and offers faculty, practitioners, and administrators different forms and methods of including students, while keeping issues of equity in mind.

Setting the Stage Natasha A. Jankowski/Gianina R. Baker: Introduction Natasha A. Jankowski/Emily Teitelbaum: Student Perceptions of and Involvement with Assessment in Higher Education Nicholas A. Curtis/Robin D. Anderson/Sally Brown: Student-Faculty Partnership: A New Paradigm for Assessing and Improving Student Learning Assessment in Practice Samantha S. Gizerian/Elizabeth A. Carney: Giving Students a Voice in Assessment through Focus Groups Rebecca C. Hong: Student Assessment Scholars: Cultivating and Empowering Student Voice in Assessment Luke Millard/Jamie Morris/Samuel Geary/Stuart Brand: Enabling Student-led Design of the Learning Experience Reflecting on Practice Karie C. Brown-Tess: Designing a Co-Created Course: A Case Study of an Undergraduate Mathematics Teacher-Education Class Tyrone Martinez-Black: Reviving a Lost Opportunity Aurora Berger: Elevating Creative Thinking Future Directions Erick Montenegro: Focus on Students and Equity in Assessment to Improve Learning Gianina R. Baker/Natasha A. Jankowski: Future Directions of Student-Focused Learning and Assessment About the Contributors Index.