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Accrediting boards, the federal government, and state legislatures are now requiring a greater level of accountability from higher education. However, current accountability practices, including accreditation, No Child Left Behind, and performance reporting are inadequate to the task. If wielded indiscriminately, accountability can actually do more harm than good. This innovative work looks broadly at how accountability is being considered by campuses, accrediting boards, higher education organizations, and governments in the US and abroad. It explores how new demands for accountability and new technologies are changing the way student learning is assessed. The author, one of the most respected assessment researchers in the nation, provides a framework for assessing student learning and discusses historical and contemporary debates in the field. He details new directions in assessment, such as the Collegiate Learning Assessment he helped develop, analyzes exemplary campus assessment programs, and proposes considerations necessary for designing successful accountability systems.
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"Richard Shavelson's Measuring College Learning Responsibility: Accountability in a New Era is timely and provocative, given the recent debate in higher education regarding the measure of learning…Shavelson's valuable work takes us to a new level of assessment for higher education: arguing for a reconfiguration of what we call learning. His view is more academic, more complex, and more nuanced tha
Review of Higher Education
"No other work is willing to take on the important issue of the measurement of learning at the college level. Our current accountability measures are overused and often inadequate, but Shavelson provides a direction for assuring successful means of assessing higher education in the future."
New York University