US Higher Education’s Billion-Dollar Liability
I am not a lawyer. I don’t even play one on TV. I’m a literal-minded engineer who loves education...
Read Moreby Andrew | Oct 22, 2018 | 21st Century Skills, Accreditation, Authentic Assessment, Competency-Based Education, Cost of Education, Education Reform, Feedback, Higher Education, Politics and Dysfunction, Working World | 0 |
I am not a lawyer. I don’t even play one on TV. I’m a literal-minded engineer who loves education...
Read Moreby Andrew | Jul 17, 2013 | 21st Century Skills, Authentic Assessment, Competency-Based Education, Cost of Education, Education Reform, Feedback, Pedagogy, Uncategorized | 0 |
I was catching up on my reading and came across a wonderful essay on the economist Albert O. Hirschman (who I’d never heard of). My wife asked me what I was doing, and I said, “I’m reading this wonderful...
Read Moreby Andrew | Feb 2, 2012 | Authentic Assessment, Feedback, Uncategorized | 0 |
We’ve been revisiting the assumptions and research on feedback recently – more to come on that. In a nutshell, faith in the power of feedback has fueled my work for almost 10 years. And clearly the...
Read Moreby Andrew | Dec 11, 2011 | Challenges to Assessment, Culture, Feedback, Higher Education, K12, Uncategorized | 0 |
When I was an RA (Residential Assistant) in college my floor got new carpets over the summer. I walked out to my first floor meeting, with my 20 or 30 freshman who would soon be (already were) smoking cigarettes, consuming vast...
Read Moreby Andrew | May 13, 2010 | E-learning, Feedback, Higher Education, K12, Outcomes Assessment, Technology, Uncategorized | 0 |
We recently got our hands on an iPad. Its speed impressed us, so we made a video to show off Waypoint running on this eminently portable assessment tool. It’s perfect for a classroom teacher or a professor working (and...
Read Moreby Andrew | Feb 8, 2010 | Feedback, Higher Education, Uncategorized, Working World | 0 |
To enter into a dialog is to be human. But dialog is difficult in many modern organizations, where large groups of people interact, time is a vanishing resource, and personal and professional pressures overwhelm. Education is a...
Read Moreby Andrew | Jan 17, 2010 | Authentic Assessment, Feedback, Formative Assessment, Rubrics, Uncategorized | 0 |
We often use the example of assessing driving skills in faculty development workshops. We like the example because most of us feel that we know a good driver when we see one (and that we’re good drivers!), but it is an...
Read Moreby Andrew | Feb 16, 2009 | Authentic Assessment, Feedback, Grading, Outcomes Assessment, Rubrics, Uncategorized | 0 |
A couple of recent articles in Inside Higher Ed caught our eye – one on grades and grade inflation, and the other on the creation of the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment. It seems obvious to us that...
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