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Reports on college student learning leave out passion
Thursday’s David Brooks column talks simple-mindedly about wanting colleges to be held accountable for student learning, somewhat misstates a key claim of Academically Adrift, and writes in a generally David Brooksish style, which should only be alarming if you were expecting a Krugman column. From my position deep in the territory controlled by the Southern Association […]
Kale chips and the LMS
For the last three Thursday mornings, I’ve sat through presentations by a combination of developers and sales teams from three different learning management systems (or LMSs), since USF’s IT department wanted to look at the institution’s choices and asked faculty and students from around the university to help organize an evaluation of different LMSs. ((The […]
Automated essay scoring on state writing tests: as efficiently “meh” as human graders
Mark Shermis and Ben Hamner are presenting a paper on automated essay scoring at NCME on Monday, ((4:05 p.m.–6:05 p.m., Hyatt Regency Second Floor, Georgia Room B)) and there has already been quite a bit of reporting on it, such as yesterday’s article at IHE. I link to the IHE reporting because the comment thread […]
The American Historical Association Tuning project
In February, the American Historical Association announced its discipline-wide “Tuning” project with a grant from the Lumina Foundation. Based on previous work in the European Balogna process and a U.S. pilot project in history in Utah, the AHA will be formulating a generic list of what students leaving various history programs should know and be […]
Assignment realities at community colleges and public research universities
David C. Levy’s screed at the Washington Post this weekend is typical of crankiness among some of those who don’t know much about higher education, believing that face time with students is the bulk of time that faculty teach in higher ed. More than that, he went after community college faculty as the place to push […]