Author: Trudy W. Banta and Associates
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: adult, education, series, higher, bass, scholarship, assessment, jossey, building
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2002-05-06
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0787959456
ISBN-13: 9780787959456

In this book, leading experts in the field examine the current state of assessment practice and scholarship, explore what the future holds for assessment, and offer guidance to help educators meet these new challenges. The contributors root assessment squarely in several related disciplines to provide an overview of assessment practice and scholarship that will prove useful to both the seasoned educator and those new to assessment practice. Ultimately, Building a Scholarship of Assessment will help convince skeptics who still believe outcomes assessment is a fad and will soon fade away that th

Author: Trudy W. Banta and Associates
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: assessment, update, collections, special, impact, scoring, uses, cases, portfolio
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2003-12-23
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 078797286X
ISBN-13: 9780787972868

Text presents current thinking on portfolio assessment; and shows how portfolios, including Web-based portfolios, have been used at various institutions to assess and improve programs in general education. Softcover. DLC: Portfolios in education.

Author: Trudy W. Banta
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: collections, assessment, update, special, disciplines, student, learning, assessing
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2007-01-22
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 078799572X
ISBN-13: 9780787995720

Because faculty members’ thinking is immersed in the discipline(s) they teach, it often makes good sense to begin an assessment initiative at a college or university by focusing on student learning in the discipline, or academic major. This new issue illustrates how assessment initiatives focused in that fashion can be the starting point of a successful institutional assessment program.Methods range from faculty-developed comprehensive exams to computer simulations, from patient-actors to electronic portfolios. Disciplines represented include political science, psychology, sociology, nursing

Authors:Catherine A. Palomba, Trudy W. Banta,
Publisher: Stylus Publishing
Keywords: approaches, assessment, higher, education, pioneering, disciplines, student, competence, accredited, assessing
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2001-07
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1579220347
ISBN-13: 9781579220341

A collection offering educators information about assessment of student learning in professional fields and higher education. Offers ideas to those who would like to borrow concepts from other fields, and offers citations and real-life case studies to demonstrate claims. DLC: Professional education--Standards.

Author: R.E. Banta
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: ohio, series, river, valley
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 1998-09-24
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0813109590
ISBN-13: 9780813109596

" Originally part of the Rivers of America Series, The Ohio traces the river from its headwaters in Pittsburgh to the point it empties into the Mississippi, nearly a thousand miles and five states later. The Ohio gives us a rare portrait of the frontier era of this region, from backwoods entertainment to learning and the arts. From early exploration to land disputes, clashes with Native American inhabitants to the birth of steamboat travel, the Ohio River comes alive through the retelling of the incidents and anecdotes that shaped its history of what the French called ""the beautiful river.""

Author: Martha Banta
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: veblen, ford, taylor, productions, lives, narrative, taylored
Number of Pages: 446
Published: 1993-07-15
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0226037010
ISBN-13: 9780226037011

Scientific management: technology spawned it, Frederick Winslow Taylor championed it, Thorstein Veblen dissected it, Henry Ford implemented it. By the turn of the century, practical visionaries prided themselves on having arrived at "the one best way" both to increase industrial productivity and to regulate human behavior. Martha Banta takes a close look at texts ranging from mail order catalogs and popular romances to the works of Henry Adams and Nathanael West to trace the effects of the efficiency craze on the full fabric of American culture.

Authors:Paula Baker-Laporte, Erica Elliott, John Banta,
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Keywords: house, healthy, prescriptions
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0865714347
ISBN-13: 9780865714342

This invaluable guide for the homeowner/architect/builder takes the mystery out of healthy house building by walking the reader through the construction process. It explains where and why standard building practices are not healthful, what to do differently, and how to obtain alternative materials and expertise. Prescriptions for a Heathy House shows how to design interior and exterior space, and select construction materials that enhance and promote physical well-being.