Discipline-based assessment of learning

By Angela R. Linse on October 29, 2010 9:38 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks
The Chronicle of Higher Education published an article on 10-24-10 about efforts to assess student learning within the disciplines:

Disciplines Follow Their Own Paths to Quality
by David Glenn,
Villanova, PA
http://chronicle.com/article/Disciplines-Follow-Their-Own/125055/. 

Of particular interest to me is the discussion of assessment within Classics and Political Science.  Hopefully, this will produce some examples that will resonate with Liberal Arts faculty!  I do think that we have a dearth of learning assessment examples that make sense to faculty who do not see their disciplines or curricula as sequential or linear.

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