Category: aa sociology of information

An interesting article and even more interesting responses in Inside Higher Ed from a few years back: “The Flawed Metaphor of the Spellings Summit”

A lot of such talk as there is about innovation and change in higher education these days shows up in the general orbit of assessment.

Assessment has landed where it has because the “movement” is driven, far beyond our individual institutions’ halls, by a political agenda and small minds who

News in recent years have featured a wide-array of “information problems” as background story. Setting a few of these side-by-side lets us get a sense

The one thing you see over and over and over in the assessment literature is the “rubric.”  Never mind, for now, the history of the

Floyd Norris has a piece in the NYT under the headline “When Law Obscures The Facts.”  In it he describes a — fill in a