“There is inadequate transparency and accountability for measuring institutional performance, which is more and more necessary to maintaining public trust in higher education.“ “Too many decisions ...

Michigan Tech's program of Graduate Student Learning Assessment asks the question: Are graduate students learning what we think they are learning? Each graduate program at Michigan Tech has adopted a ...

A central tenet of the student learning outcomes "movement" is that higher education institutions must articulate a specific set of skills, traits and/or dispositions that all of its students will ...

Colleges and universities are increasingly intentional about meeting well-articulated and consistent general education goals and documenting substantive learning outcomes. Institutional imperatives to ...

Outcomes can be at the university, program or course level. Learning outcomes may be defined as the change in a student’s knowledge or skills as a result of the student’s experience(s). The focus of ...

After the Program Outcomes have been established, the next step and in many ways, the first step in the actual assessment cycle is to identify the learning outcomes that should occur for each course.

The Educational Testing Service introduced on Monday a new version of its test of general education outcomes for use by colleges to assess students’ skills in reading, writing, critical thinking, and ...

Learning outcomes are not an end in themselves but the basis of the educational programme In an outcome-based approach, decisions about student selection, curriculum planning, teaching, learning and ...

In order to have quality graduate education, individual courses must have learning outcomes that are appropriate for graduate students. Learning outcomes should emphasize the application, analysis, ...

The University Assessment Steering Committee (UASC), in conjunction with the Office of Institutional Effectiveness, requests information regarding student learning outcomes assessment as a part of the ...