Thursday, January 8, 2009

AACU issues "new" report on assessing student learning in higher ed

Assessing student learning has probably been at the front of your mind for ages now, or at least you felt like it should be. Read the report, “Our Students’ Best Work: A Framework for Accountability Worthy of Our Mission,” and you too can amaze and impress your colleagues with your knowledge of current issues in higher ed :-)
An excerpt from the Jan. 8 Inside Higher Education article about the AACU report:
"AACU, in contrast, believes that colleges must “actually use assessment to improve student learning,” and its re-released report, updated and reinforced in several ways, is meant to be a roadmap to help both the higher education establishment and individual colleges figure out how to do that. By arguing both for the idea that colleges must measure student learning and strongly against the use of “mass testing,” which it argues would be an “enormous misuse of time and scarce resources,” the AACU statement seeks to walk a middle path in the contentious debate over whether and how colleges should measure and report student learning."

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