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Assessment is a Wicked Problem (Part 1)
I have a love-hate relationship with the enterprise of learning assessment. By assessment, I mean both the formative, “checking in to see how someone is doing at a given moment” assessments and the summative, “this is how you did and what that says about what you learned” assessments that get recorded in gradebooks and eventually Continue reading
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An Opening Statement (of sorts)
It is a commonplace that U.S. higher education faces not just a time of crisis, but layers of crises: The demographic cliff, the deep cuts to funding, the rapidly evolving and unpredictable impacts of artificial intelligence, the ascendant meme that college is no longer vital to career success, the incessant political attacks … The Chronicle Continue reading