This post is not specifically about assessment, but it relates to the larger conversation of which assessment is but one component : the future of
Scoops in Journalism and Everyday Life
Jay Rosen has a post today titled “Four Types of Scoops” that will surely make it into my sociology of information book. The four types
Tomorrow’s Social Science Today? By Techies?
If you generate the data, the analysts will come. And more and more of the technologies of everyday life generate data, lots of it. “Big
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
College Presidents and Bonuses
A never posted draft dusted off and posted now. While doing some research on a completely unrelated topics I came across a few articles on
