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.

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