Assessment and Accountability

Assessment and Accountability
Several students of various races laugh together.
Leveling the Playing Field for Social Capital
Aug 05, 2022
Can technology help equalize students’ access to relationships that provide support, information and opportunity?

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Campus of CUNY's Lehman College.
Economic Mobility Through a Different Lens
Morris Brown College president Kevin James stands at a podium with a microphone. Students in purple college spirit wear stand in the background.
‘Resurrection’ and ‘Restoration’
House Approves College Transparency Act
Grading in a Pandemic (Still)
Aug 12, 2020
Colleges adopted an array of flexible assessment policies because of COVID-19 last spring. Many are reverting to their normal practices this fall -- though the term will be anything but.

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Evaluating Teaching During the Pandemic
Can ‘Nudges’ Make Students Study More? Maybe Someday

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The 2020 Inside Higher Ed Survey of Chief Academic Officers

Jan. 21, 2020 -- Inside Higher Ed's 2019 Survey of Chief Academic Officers, conducted in association with Gallup, can be downloaded here, free.

Inside Higher Ed regularly surveys key higher ed professionals on a range of topics.

On Tuesday, Feb. 25, at 2 p.m. Eastern, Inside Higher Ed present a free webcast discussing the results of the survey. View the webcast here.

The Inside Higher Ed Survey of College and University Chief Academic Officers was made possible in part with support from Oracle, Watermark, Phi Kappa Phi and Gallup.

Booklets

Using Data to Drive Student Success

"Using Data to Drive Student Success" is a new print-on-demand editorial compilation from Inside Higher Ed. The free collection of news articles and essays is available for download here.

On Wednesday, March 16, at 2 p.m. Eastern, Inside Higher Ed's editors will lead a webcast about the themes of this booklet. Please click here to register or find out more.

This compilation is made possible in part by the support of D2L.

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How colleges can level the playing field for social capital
August 5, 2022
Can technology help equalize students’ access to relationships that provide support, information and opportunity?
Ways of measuring students' economic mobility are changing
June 15, 2022
A new Economic Mobility Index highlights postgraduation outcomes of colleges that serve high numbers of low-income students.
Morris Brown college rebuilds after accreditation restored
May 9, 2022
Morris Brown College regained full accreditation after 20 years. What’s next for the institution?
How to improve outcomes data for online programs (opinion)
March 29, 2022
It’s often impossible to tell how graduates of online programs fare, Robert Kelchen writes.
Five surprises about accreditation (opinion)
February 17, 2022
Accreditation is stepping up its game in an evolving higher education landscape in ways that may surprise you, writes Jamienne Studley.
House passes College Transparency Act
February 7, 2022
It calls for all colleges to release information on student enrollment, persistence, transfer and completion measures for all programs and degree levels.
Why everyone in higher education is a 'data person'
February 7, 2022
Amelia Parnell explains why nearly everyone in higher education can contribute to important conversations about data and analysis to help students and improve institutions.
A possible model for identifying riskiest colleges for students
February 1, 2022
A framework developed to identify the riskiest colleges for veterans could be a model for state regulators and accreditors to spot colleges that could close or harm students.
Debating the value of arts (and other) degrees: Key podcast
December 7, 2021
Kevin Carey and Doug Dempster discuss accountability, exploitation and the wisdom of getting degrees in low-paying fields.
Accrediting agency enables a closer look at data on college performance
August 30, 2021
Western accrediting agency’s new database, tapping into wide swath of federal information, better enables public scrutiny of the performance of the colleges it monitors.

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Many colleges will return to normal grading this fall. But will the semester be 'normal'?
August 12, 2020

Colleges adopted an array of flexible assessment policies because of COVID-19 last spring. Many are reverting to their normal practices this fall -- though the term will be anything but.

Many colleges are abandoning or downgrading student evaluations during coronavirus crisis. Will that stick?
April 8, 2020

Some colleges are changing how they collect and consider student ratings of instructors, citing the COVID-19-driven move online. Might that undermine a widely criticized (and used) tool?

Trying (and failing) to use digital communications to get students to study more
October 3, 2018

Researchers hoped that online communications would prod students to nearly double their study time. It barely budged, but their study shows how scholars can measure impact (or lack thereof) of educational interventions.

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