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Report Suggests Ways Colleges Can Share Information About Learning Outcomes

February 22, 2011, 3:10 pm

Colleges can take simple steps to tell the public about how they measure student learning. That’s the message of a Transparency Framework that has just been unveiled by the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment. A document describing the framework highlights institutions (St. Olaf College is one example) that have made assessment data reasonably easy to find on their Web sites. Openness about learning outcomes was also the subject of a panel discussion at last month’s meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities.

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  • justoneopinion1

    The proliferation of “research” and data gathering related to learning outcomes and assessment is really just a way to justify hiring useless administrators at highly inflated salaries. The educational benefit is nil – in fact it provide less resources to the most important aspect of education. This is, good quality teaching.

    The saddest part of this trend is the assessment groupies actually believe they have something to offer. I have yet to find anything useful.

  • dmtedards

    I differ with JustOneOpinion’s remarks below. One important way to identify and support “good quality teaching” and learning is to directly and authentically assess student learning and share that assessment with faculty and students to improve the curriculum and the quality of the BA/BS degrees awarded in this country. Inflated salaries is another issue entirely, as is “useless” administrators…I trust my colleague is involved in governance and compensation committees on his campus to try to remedy the problem of bloated and over paid administrative staff. Finally, I’m finding that on our campus it is faculty not administrators who are doing the best work in assessment that is discipline specific and can’t be done right without their involvement.

  • translog

    Striking work at the crucial times esp during the beginingg of the Fall Session is putting the spanner in the works and deciding on who has more muscle power to negotiate for higher wages.

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