New Leadership for Learning and Accountability

Subject: assessment
Date: 2008-01-30
Joint statement by CHEA and the AAC&U arguing for measures of learning outcomes that go beyond simple testing.  From the statement:  "Understanding that standardized measures currently address only a small part of what matters in college, we will work with foundations and campus partners to substantially expand the array of educationally valid and useful means—qualitative as well as quantitative—of assessing the full range of learning outcomes."