Karen E. Black

This book's contribution will be a very big one--and not just in size...there is no compAndium of examples like it. As such, it's invaluable. It will be very useful to those who plan and carry out assessment on campuses. ? Thomas A. Angelo, director, AAHE Assessment Forum Brings together in one volume the best current knowledge of what assessment methods work best and how their principles should be incorporated into all effective assessment efforts?whether at institutional, program, or department levels. Drawing from 165 actual cases?and reporting 86 of them in their entirety?the authors illustrate methods and techniques of assessment covering a wide range of objectives in diverse types of institutions.

From Karen E. Black comes the final novel in a trilogy about the Devereux cousins. In From the Chrysalis (The Devereux Cousins, Book 1), Dace and Liza's unconventional romance survived beyond all odds--and a deadly prison riot gave them a brief chance at freedom. In Feeling for the Air (The Devereux Cousins, Book 2), Dace was on the run while Liza balanced college and single motherhood, but together with baby Micah, they found the monarchs' wintering grounds on a Mexican mountaintop and started building their family. Now in Take to the Sky (The Devereux Cousins, Book 3), undercover work, a school sex abuse inquiry and monarch butterflies provide surprising plots twists in this gritty, sweeping saga of ex-con Dace and Liza Devereux's complicated family.

From Karen E. Black comes the final novel in a trilogy about the Devereux cousins-In "From the Chrysalis" (The Devereux Cousins, Book 1), Dace and Liza's unconventional romance survived beyond all odds-and a deadly prison riot gave them a brief chance at freedom. In "Feeling for the Air" (The Devereux Cousins, Book 2), Dace was on the run while Liza balanced college and single motherhood, but together with baby Micah, they found the monarchs' wintering grounds on a mountaintop in Michoac n, Mexico. In "Take to the Sky" (The Devereux Cousins, Book 3) Undercover work, a school sex abuse inquiry and monarch butterflies provide surprising plot twists in this gritty, sweeping saga of ex-con Dace and Liza Devereux's complicated family.

He's escaped from a maximum-security penitentiary designed to house the most ruthless of criminals. Now alleged biker gang leader Dace Devereux is on the run, wanted for inciting one of the biggest prison riots in history. But it's not the cops, or the Canadian penal system, that dominate Dace's thoughts. Instead, it's his cousin Liza-a gifted college student, now with child, beginning her master's degree at the University of Toronto. As Dace, filled with thoughts of his cousin, migrates south to Mexico to find where the monarch butterflies spend their winter, Liza faces a new set of challenges at home in Maitland. Forced to balance her studies, the trials of new motherhood, and the consequences of her unconventional situation, she remains passionately in love with Dace-and will go to any lengths to help her soul mate clear his name. The second of three novels about the Devereux cousins, Feeling for the Air combines the electricity of a forbidden romance in the early 1970s with breathtaking plot twists as two lovers who wish to roam as wild and free as butterflies are dealt a difficult and unforgiving fate.

Fifteen years ago Trudy Banta and her colleagues surveyed the national landscape for the campus examples that were published in the classic work Assessment in Practice. Since then, significant advances have occurred, including the use of technology to organize and manage the assessment process and increased reliance on assessment findings to make key decisions aimed at enhancing student learning. Trudy Banta, Elizabeth Jones, and Karen Black offer 49 detailed current examples of good practice in planning, implementing, and sustaining assessment that are practical and ready to apply in new settings. This important resource can help educators put in place an effective process for determining what works and which improvements will have the most impact in improving curriculum, methods of instruction, and student services on college and university campuses.