Colleges are feeling heat to prove that their students are learning. As a result, a growing number of colleges are measuring intended “learning outcomes” as well as issuing grades. But fewer are using ...

As Americans express growing doubts about the value of a postsecondary degree, colleges and universities have been under increasing pressure to show that students emerge with the knowledge and/or ...

If you were to embark on a weight loss journey, how would you track your results? Would you measure success by how much money you spent on healthy foods or how many of those healthy foods were ...

E very six years, the accountability police swoop down on my campus in the form of WASC, the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. The West Coast accreditation organization comes to Scripps, as ...

A ground-breaking regional assessment evaluating learning outcomes was conducted for the first time in 10 Francophone African countries. The assessment is an important tool that will help countries ...

The new ABA accreditation standards are out, and we’ll need to start making adjustments to how we assess what our students learn. The standards are intended to move law schools in the direction of ...

The world we inhabit today is rapidly changing in different ways, and shedding old ways of doing things. It has become necessary to equip our future generation with learning and skills that will not ...