Stay the Course: Reminders for When Assessment Gets Messy [REBLOG]

The folks over at the "Oh, No, It's an Assessment Blog" posted this great little piece on the "messiness" of assessing student learning and distilled down five tips to help guide efforts in this area. They also include an excellent video (see below, highly recommended) form the folks at EDUCAUSE about why learning assessment can seem... Continue Reading →

08.25.15

On Grade Inflation and Accountability for Student Learning

There is a lot of fuss about grade inflation at colleges and universities, but are we correctly identifying the problem or just a symptom? I think that the real question we should be asking ourselves as educators is: What is the best way to measure and assess student learning? So what is grade inflation, exactly?... Continue Reading →

07.03.15

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