Measuring Student Learning as an Indicator of Institutional Effectiveness: Practices, Challenges, and Possibilities

Subject: assessment
Date: 2009-11-10
Wendy Erisman of the Texas Higher Education Policy Institute surveys current assessment practice in various states to inform recommendations to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. This is readable and accessible, putting into a national context several of the initiatives underway in California, including the Voluntary System of Accountability and the AAC&U's VALUE rubrics.