90-Minute Recording of an Audio Online Seminar • Originally Broadcast September 16, 2009 • $249

It’s a fundamental question when assessing student learning …

What does success look like?

Establishing standards is a difficult process. But with assessments taking on increasing importance–not just within your institution but as criteria for accreditation and funding–it’s essential that you create clear and meaningful measures of achievement.

In this 90-minute seminar, Linda Suskie, vice president of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, will share strategies for developing assessment standards that give a true measure of your students’ accomplishments.

In How Good Is Good Enough? Setting Benchmarks or Standards, you’ll learn:

• The relative merits of local standards, peer benchmarks and value-added benchmarks.
• Why it’s helpful to consider more than one type of standard.
• How to develop standards for both individual and collective student performance.
• How to involve others on your campus in standard-setting.
• How to use rubrics to articulate local standards.
• When and why to consider multiple standards for both minimally acceptable and exemplary performance.
• How to use student work to inform your development of standards.
• And much more.

An internationally recognized speaker, author and consultant on assessment issues, Linda Suskie is uniquely qualified to provide a real-world perspective on assessments and practical, proven tips for making them work.

An excellent value
In challenging economic times, you don’t have to forgo your professional development … you just have to be smart about it. Magna's seminar CDs like this one are certainly a smart choice; they cost just a fraction of what off-campus events do, and carry none of the incidental expenses for travel, lodging, meals, etc.

The fee for this seminar CD is a modest $249. Better still, it applies per CD, not per person. That means you can invite others from your campus to attend, and it won’t cost you a penny more. Simply project it into a conference room, lecture hall, or any facility large enough to accommodate your group!

Who will benefit from this seminar:
• Chief academic officers
• Deans
• Assistant/associate provosts/vice presidents for academic affairs
• Assessment coordinators/directors
• Assessment committee members
• Institutional research directors
• Student development staff
• Academic administrators
• Faculty governance leaders
• Department chairs

More and more, assessments are playing a key role in your institution’s accreditation and funding. And more and more, they’re shaping your administration’s decisions about proper allocation of limited resources. For these and other reasons, it’s important to get them right. Be sure to purchase this eye-opening seminar!

Don’t miss Part II of our Assessment series!
Linda Suskie also presents Summarizing and Using Assessment Results, another Magna Seminar CD. In it, she takes a careful look at the best ways to leverage your assessment results. Click here to learn more–and discover how you can save money by purchasing both seminars!

     Linda Suskie

Available in CD or print transcript format. Presenter's handouts are included as a PDF on CDs and in hard copy with transcript purchases. CD orders generally ship within three to five business days following the live seminar date. Print transcripts (and CD/transcript binder sets) require additional time for publishing and processing and will be shipped approximately three weeks after the live program is held.

90-Minute Recording of an Audio Online Seminar • Originally Broadcast September 16, 2009 • $249

Build your reference library with our CD/Transcript packages Purchase both the audio CD and print transcript of this important seminar and you'll have a resource you'll refer to again and again. Each package set includes the full print transcript of the live seminar, the presenter's handouts, and CD recording of the live program in a protective sleeve. You'll never wonder where your CD is because it's kept right with the printed materials. When you add this attractive binder set to your shelf, you have easy access to all the materials from our online seminar at your fingertips - whenever you want it. Plus, you'll save $49 over the cost of purchasing these items separately!