May 13, 2009

Community Colleges Need Improved Assessment Tools to Improve Basic-Skills Instruction, Report Says

By Josh Keller

To improve the success rates of students who are unprepared for college-level work, community colleges must develop richer forms of student-learning assessment, analyze the data to discover best teaching practices, and get faculty members more involved in the assessment process, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Traditional uses of institutional data, like grades and test scores, often fail to involve faculty

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