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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 60-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 25th 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: http://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=476 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 Rutgers University Saint Louis University Swinburne University of Technology Teachers College, Columbia University The Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis University of Idaho University College Dublin University of Alberta University of Birmingham University of California, Davis University of California, Riverside University of California, Santa Barbara University of California--Berkeley University of Chicago University of Florida University of Idaho University of Maryland University of Maryland--Baltimore University of Maryland--College Park University of Michigan University of Michigan at Ann Arbor University of Michigan School of Information University of Michigan-Flint University of Missouri University of Nottingham University of Pittsburgh University of South Florida University of Tasmania University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center University of Toronto University of Toronto Scarborough University of Utah University of Western Australia VCUArts in Qatar Virginia Commonwealth University Washington State University Washington University Washington University in St. Louis Yale University