Nearly 70 Colleges Team Up to Assess Student Learning - Inside Higher Ed

Nearly 70 institutions are collaborating to better assess learning outcomes as part of a new initiative called the Multi-State Collaborative to Advance Learning Outcomes Assessment. The colleges and universities are a mix of two- and four-year institutions. The initiative, funded in its initial planning year by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was announced by the Association of Colleges and Universities and the State Higher Education Executive Officers association. ”The calls are mounting daily for higher education to be able to show what students can successfully do with their learning,” said Carol Geary Schneider, AAC&U president, in an announcement. “The Multi-State Collaborative is a very important step toward focusing assessment on the best evidence of all: the work students produce in the course of their college studies." http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/06/25/nearly-70-colleges-team-assess-student-learning#sthash.Egq70nOy.dpbs