Background
Astin, Alexander William was born on May 30, 1932 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Allen Varley and Margaret L. (Mackenzie) Astin.
(Education, Higher Education, Socioloy, Behavioral Science)
Education, Higher Education, Socioloy, Behavioral Science
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The second edition of Assessment for Excellence arrives as higher education enters a new era of the accountability movement. In the face of mandates such as results-based funding and outcomes-based accreditation, institutions and assessment specialists are feeling increasingly pressured to demonstrate accountability to external constituencies. The practice of assessment under these new accountability pressures takes on special significance for the education of students and the development of talent across the entire higher education system. This book introduces a talent development approach to educational assessment as a counter to prevailing philosophies, illustrating how contemporary practices are unable to provide institutions with meaningful data with which to improve educational outcomes. It provides administrators, policymakers, researchers, and analysts with a comprehensive framework for developing new assessment programs to promote talent development and for scrutinizing existing policies and practices. Written for a wide audience, the book enables the lay reader to quickly grasp the imperatives of a properly-designed assessment program, and also to gain adequate statistical understanding necessary for examining current or planned assessment policies. More advanced readers will appreciate the technical appendix for assistance in conducting statistical analyses that align with a talent development approach. In addition, institutional researchers will benefit from sections that outline the development of appropriate student databases.
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Examines why assessment activity has produced meagre results and how existing activities can be improved. Astin's ideas include how assessment information can be used most effectively for evaluation; and how results can be used to enlighten and inform the practitioner.
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From the author of Four Critical Years-a book the Journal of Higher Education called the most cited work in higher education literature-What Matters in College? presents the definitive study of how students change and develop in college and how colleges can enhance that development. Based on a study of more than 20,000 students, 25,000 faculty members, and 200 institutions, the book shows how academic programs, faculty, student peer groups, and other variables affect students' college experiences.
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director Distinguished Professor
Astin, Alexander William was born on May 30, 1932 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Allen Varley and Margaret L. (Mackenzie) Astin.
AB, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, 1953. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, 1981. Master of Arts, University Maryland, 1956.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Maryland, 1958. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Alderson-Broaddus College, 1982. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Whitman College, 1986.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Chapman College, 1987. Doctor of Humane Letters, American College Switzerland, 1989. Doctor of Humane Letters, State University of New York, 1989.
Doctor of Pedagogy, Rhode Island College, 1987. Doctor of Science, Thomas Jefferson University, 1990. Doctor of Education (honorary), Merrimack College, 1993.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Pepperdine University, 1993.
He is founding director of the Higher Education Research Institute at University of California, Los Los Angeles He has served as Director of Research for both the American Council on Education and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. He is also the founding director of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, an ongoing national study of some fifteen million students, 300,000 faculty and staff, and 1,800 higher education institutions. Astin has been director of research for both the American Council on Education (1965-1973) and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (1960-1965).
He has authored 22 books and more than 300 other publications in the field of higher education, and has been a recipient of awards for outstanding research from more than a dozen national associations and professional societies.
He has also been elected to membership in the National Academy of Education, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and a recipient of eleven honorary degrees. A 1990 study in the Journal of Higher Education identified Astin as the most frequently-cited author in the field of higher education.
A 2010 study in the same journal also identified him as the author most cited by others in the field of higher education. In 1985 readers of Change magazine selected Astin as the person "most admired for creative, insightful thinking" in the field of higher education.
His latest book (with a l antonio) is Assessment for Excellence: The Philosophy and Practice of Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education (Second Edition) (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012).
Astin was born in Washington, District of Columbia to the late Margaret Linnie Mackenzie and Doctor Allen Varley Astin, a physicist and the fifth director of the National Bureau of Standards now the National Institute of Standards & Technology. Astin married Helen Stavridou on February 11, 1956. They have been colleagues at University of California, Los Angeles since 1973 and have collaborated on many research projects.
They are currently retired, but have recently authored a significant study on spirituality in higher education, which became available in book form in 2011.
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( The second edition of Assessment for Excellence arr...)
(Examines why assessment activity has produced meagre resu...)
(Examines why assessment activity has produced meagre resu...)
(Education, Higher Education, Socioloy, Behavioral Science)
(Book by Astin, Alexander W., Scherrei, Rita A.)
(Book by Astin, Alexander W)
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Trustee St. Xavier College, Chicago, Marjorie Webster Junior College, Washington, Gettysburg College, 1983-1986, Eckerd College, Florida, 1986-1991. Fellow American Psychological Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Association Higher Education (director).
Married Helen Stavridou, February 11, 1956. Children: John Alexander, Paul Allen.