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
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.
