Let’s take assessment and accountability seriously AS AN INSTITUTION. There is a tendency to equate assessment with measuring what professors do to/with students. The buzz
Author: Dan Ryan
I've been an Academic Program Director at MinervaProject.com, a professor at University of Toronto, University of Southern California, and Mills College teaching things like human centered design, computational thinking, modeling for policy sciences, and social theory. My current mission is to figure out how to reorganize higher education and exploit technology so that we can teach twice as many twice as well twice as easily.
The Bannerization of Assessment
I met recently, along with Andy, Alice, and Kiem, with two reps from the Blackboard company. They were here to tell us about a Blackboard
Conference on Information and Networks
A Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN) will be held at the Stern School at NYU in late September. Here’s how they describe what they
It IS an Industry…
Recently got copy of an email sent out by McGraw-Hill’s “Assessment Research Project.” In part it said: As a quick reminder, we are conducting this
Validity and Such
An AACU blogpost referred me to the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment website which referred me to an ETS website about the Measure of
Introduction
This is intended to be a critical discussion of assessment in higher education.
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