Return to site
Return to site

Assessment And Research Are Different Things — And That’s Okay

· Methods,Reflection,Principles

Recently, there’s been buzz in the higher ed industry about defining assessment and determining its value.

In November 2016, Erik Gilbert wrote an opinion piece for Inside Higher Ed called Why Assessment is a Waste of Time and in May 2017 Rishi Sriram published “We Need Researchers…So Let’s Stop Using the Term Assessment” in About Campus. Allow me to give you my quick take on each of these before making some overarching points about assessment.

Those aware of my careers and other articles I’ve written might imagine that I’d have strong feelings about Gilbert’s stance that assessment is a waste of time.

(Live link here) Continue reading here.

Related posts:

Disagreeing my way to better understanding AER

Differentiating AER

 

 

Subscribe
Previous
Partnering Across Campus for Better Assessment
Next
Finding Value in the Unexpected
 Return to site
Powered by Strikingly
Create a site with
This website is built with Strikingly.
Create yours today!

This website is built with Strikingly.

Create your FREE website today!

All Posts
×

Almost done…

We just sent you an email. Please click the link in the email to confirm your subscription!

OKSubscriptions powered by Strikingly