Primary Research Group Inc, has published the International Survey of Research University Leadership: Evaluation of the Student Assessment Effort, ISBN 978-157440-495-1

The 50-page study gives detailed data on how 249 university deans, provosts, administrative and academic department heads and other leaders perceive the university office of student assessment, or similar office that performs these functions.  It also looks specifically at the level of support among university leaders for spending on assessment personnel, standardized testing, assessment training for faculty and other assessment tools. 

Respondents were drawn from major research universities in the USA, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

Data in the report is broken out by a broad range of criteria including: age, gender, academic title, and compensation level of respondent, and university ranking, public/private status and country of origin of the respondents affiliated institution. The sample is comprised of deans, provosts, chancellors, trustees, vice presidents, upper level administration directors, academic department heads, and distinguished professors.

Just a few of the report’s many findings are that:

• In general, the most highly ranked schools were for the most part more critical of the assessment office than were their lower ranked peers; for those from top 40 universities, less than 20% considered assessment office performance to be good or excellent while 50% thought it only acceptable.
• The older the interviewee, the more likely that they were to feel that their faculty thought of the assessment effort as important or very important.
• By country, the greatest sentiment for the university to spend more on student assessment was in Australia/New Zealand where 28% of leaders interviewed wanted to spend more.
• 36.55% wanted the university to spend about the same that it had been spending on assessment training for university faculty.

A PDF version of the report is currently available from Primary Research Group for $109.00 and a print version will be available to be shipped on February 25^th 2018 and can be ordered now; site licenses are also available. To view a table of contents, an excerpt, a list of the institutional affiliations of survey participants ---– go to the product page for this report at: 

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Or visit our general website at  www.PrimaryResearch.com or call us at 212-736-2316. 

A list of the institutional affiliations of the survey participants is below:

Australian National University

Barnard College

Baylor College of Medicine

Brown University

Carleton University

Carnegie Mellon University

Case Western Reserve University

College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Maryland

Curtin University

Drexel University

Emory University

Georgia Institute of Technology

Griffith University

Imperial College London

James Cook University

Lehigh University

Massey University

McGill University

Michigan State University

Monash University

Penn State College of Medicine

Penn State University

Pennsylvania State University

Princeton University

Queen Mary University of London

Rice University