September 14, 2001

Student Assessment for the Information Age

By BARBARA ROGOFF

For decades, the University of California at Santa Cruz, where I teach, has broken ranks with most other higher-education institutions. Until recently, we provided written performance evaluations to gauge student learning and did not give letter grades.

Last year, because of the rapid growth in the number of students and concerns about faculty workload, a group of Santa Cruz professors proposed to replace our "narrative evaluation system" with mandatory letter grades. After

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