Despite growing pressure from policy makers and prospective students for colleges to prove their value, the institutions have often insisted that their unique missions make simple measurements forbiddingly difficult. Now they have documented proof. After three years of studying ideas for measuring institutional quality, an expert panel assembled by the National Research Council delivered a 192-page report on Thurday that indicates just how hard it is to do that. (FULL REPORT: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13417)
http://chronicle.com/article/Quest-for-College/131910/
