Foreword.

Preface.

About the Author.

About the Contributors.

1. Assessment as an Essential Dimension of Contemporary Student Affairs Practice.

2. Using Existing Databases.

Kevin Saunders and Darin R. Wohlgemuth.

3. Planning for and Implementing Data Collection.

R. M. Cooper.

4. Selecting, Sampling, and Soliciting Subjects.

Ann M. Gansemer-Topf and Darin R. Wohlgemuth.

5. Instrumentation.

Kevin Saunders and R. M. Cooper.

6. Data Analysis.

R. M. Cooper and Mack C. Shelley, II.

7. Writing Reports and Conducting Briefings.

8. Ethics.

9. Using a Mixed Methodological Approach to Assessment: A Case Study.

10. Looking to the Future of Assessment: Some Ideas and Musings.

Appendixes.

1. Example of a Focus Group Protocol.

2. Using Microsoft Excel to Develop a Random Sample and a Stratified Random Sample.

3. Listing of Commonly Used Instruments, Purpose, and Information Collected.

4. Computer Syntax Code for Table 6.1.

5. Further Explanation of Table 6.2.

6. Sample Methods Paragraph.

7. Informed Consent Checklist-Basic and Additional Elements.

8. Codes of Ethics of Relevant Professional Organizations to Conducting Assessment Studies in Student Affairs.