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Faculty in community colleges are responsive, entrepreneurial, and innovative—characteristics society wants and needs of higher education. In addition, they take teaching and student learning seriously, and in many ways their approaches to the assessment of learning and other college outcomes are exemplary. This book describes approaches to assessing four components of the community college mission: general education, career and occupational education, continuing education, and transfer to four-year institutions. Also explored are the assessment of institutional effectiveness, uses of assessment findings, and principles for successful assessment. Through analysis of assessment efforts in the community college setting, faculty and administrators at both two- and four-year institutions may find successful models for improving the assessment of student learning as well as curricula, instruction, and support services.
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