NIU Assessment Scholarship

NIU Assessment Papers and Presentations

• Boughton, D (In Press) Assessment of Performance in the Visual Arts: What, How, and Why. In Karpati, A., Gaul, E. (Eds.) From Child Art to Visual Culture of Youth - New Models and Tools for Assessment of Learning and Creation in Art Education. Intellect Press, Bristol, UK.
• Boughton, D. (2012). The value of portfolio data in action research. In S. Klein (Ed.) Action research methods: Plain and simple. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Boughton, D. (2008, March). Promoting Creativity in the Art Class through Assessment. Keynote address at the World Creativity Summit, World Alliance of International Arts Education Associations, ME.
• Buhrow, A. & Matin Poole, S. (2011, March). Organizational Culture: Psychology, attitudes, experiences, beliefs and values of an organization [Prezi slides]. Paper presented at the annual Assessment Conference of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, Atlanta, GA.
• Coller, B. D. (2012). Preliminary results on using a video game in teaching dynamics, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference.
• Coller, B. (2008). An Experiment in hands-on learning in engineering mechanics: Statics.
• Coller, B. D., & Scott, M. J. (2009). Effectiveness of using a video game to teach a course in mechanical engineering, Computers & Education, 53(3), 900-912.
• Coller, B. & Shernoff, D. (2009). Video game-based education in mechanical engineering: A look at student engagement.
• Coller, B. D., Shernoff, D. J., & Strati, A. D. (2011), Measuring engagement as students learn dynamic systems & control with a video game, Advances in Engineering Education, 2(3).
• Douglass, C. (2008). Engagement in and Assessment of Integrative Learning. In Frontiers in Higher Education: International Conference on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (pp. 113-117). Singapore: Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning.
• Douglass, C., Boelcke, W., & Swanson, J. (2011). Does Engagement Predict Student Success? Academic Exchange Quarterly, 15(1), 67-72.
• Douglass, C. & Swanson, A. (2008). Creating a Culture of Learning with Annual Assessment Updates.
• Dzuranin, A. C., Shortridge, R. T., & Smith, P. A. (2012) Building ehtical leaders: A way to integrate and assess ethics education, Journal of Business Ethics, 1-14. doi: 10.1007/s10551-012-1371-x
• Melin, L. & Walker, D. (2009). A Data-Driven Dispositions Model for Teacher Candidates and Program Review. Action in Teacher Education, 31(1), 58-74.
• Marcus, L., Plumeri, J., Baker, G. M., Miller, J. S. (2013). A teacher-developed inquiry model to teach the molecular basis of hyberbolic kinetics in biological membrane transport, Advances in Physiology Education, 37, 165-175.
  doi:10.1152/advan.00010.2013
• Niemi, E. & Douglass, C. (2013). Including students in student assessment. Assessment Update, 25(2), 7-8, 14. doi: 10.1002/au
• Peters, B. (2011). Lessons about Writing to Learn from a University-High School Partnership. WritingProgram Administration, 34(Spring), 59-88.
• Towell, E., McFadden, K. L., McCoy, W. C., & Buhrow, A. (2012). Creating an interdisciplinary business ethics program, Journal of Academic Ethics, 10(2), 93-112.

Assessment Conferences

Assessment Journals

• Academic Exchange Quarterly*
• Active Learning in Higher Education*
• Applied Psychological Measurement*
• Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education*
• Assessment in Education*
• Assessment Update
• Educational Assessment*
• Educational Researcher*
• Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research
• Journal of Higher Education*
• Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment*
• Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning*
• New Directions for Institutional Research
• Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation*
• Research in Higher Education*
• Review of Educational Research*
• Studies in Higher Education*
• The Education Forum*
• The Science Teacher

*peer reviewed

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