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
Information Forms in Everyday Life
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 Fetishization of Rubrics I
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
The Social Organization of Collective Blindspots
Floyd Norris has a piece in the NYT under the headline “When Law Obscures The Facts.” In it he describes a — fill in a
Surveilance Raised to the Second Power
The following article appear about a week ago over the AP business wire. It turns out that parents who “spy” on their children may be
Some More Thoughts abou Majors and the Future
The Canon of College Majors Persists Amid Calls for Change The more academe changes, the more the list of majors stays the same, even though
