From New York Times Magazine. Ostensibly a profile of Andy Chan, Wake Forest’s VP for “Personal and Career Development,” this article suggests a conversation
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Know (and be smarter than) Your Enemy
This post is not specifically about assessment, but it relates to the larger conversation of which assessment is but one component : the future of
What If Administrator Pay Were Tied to Student Learning Outcomes
The recent negotiation in Chicago (“Performance Pay for College Faculty“) of a tie between student performance and college instructor pay brought this accolade from an administrator: it gets
Better Teaching Through a Financial Stake in the Outcome
In an Inside Higher Ed article this week (“Performance Pay for College Faculty“) K Basu and P Fain describe how the new contract signed between
Peer to Peer Education: Can Students Teach One Another?
One of society’s major “information institutions” is, of course, the university (and colleges, too). In these institutions information is generated, classified, evaluated, sanctioned, organized, and
Information and Educational Assessment I
In a letter to the NYT about an article on radiation overdoses, George Lantos writes: My stroke neurologists and I have decided that if treatment
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