Law is the latest discipline to resist accountability in the form of clearly articulating intended learning outcomes, and then measuring to see if students, in fact, learned what was intended. This Chronicle of Higher Education article details the controversy stirred by the American Bar Association’s plans to shift from looking at inputs to assessing outcomes. [...]
This article in the Chronicle of Higher Education reports that between 31 and 45 states are keeping some individual records on college students. I think that is a very good thing. There are others in higher education who consider such record-keeping to be problematic and threatening. So threatening that they pursued and secured legislation [...]
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Welcome to The Other 85 Percent. So what does "the other 85 percent" refer to? Research has shown that only about 15 percent of higher education students still fit the traditional definition of young adults age 18 to 22 who live on campus and go to school full time. more
