May 27, 2008

Accreditors Advise Colleges to Make Better Use of Student-Learning Data

By David Glenn

Seattle

If colleges want to avoid onerous and ham-handed forms of government regulation, they should become much smarter about analyzing and responding to their own internal student-achievement data. That, in a nutshell, is the message that six representatives of major regional accrediting organizations delivered during a panel discussion here on Monday at the annual conference of the Association for Institutional Research.

The accreditors told the assembled scholars—most of whom

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