When It’s Bad Cess to Assess!

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2006

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Jay Freyman, When It’s Bad Cess to Assess!, Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 7:1, Spring/Summer 2006. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nchcjournal/11/

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Abstract

It seems to me that efforts at outcome assessment in higher education are deficient because of a failure to understand what exactly it is that is being or should be assessed. Certainly, the object of such assessment should not be what, if anything, the student has learned in courses; grades for course work, grade inflation notwithstanding, should suffice to tell that tale.