Test Anxiety - Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed

Two years into the job, former Governor Purdue University President Mitch Daniels has arrived at a major impasse with Purdue’s faculty: how to prove that students are actually learning something while at the university. Backed by Purdue’s Board of Trustees and inspired by the work of Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa (the authors of Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses) and others who argue that undergraduates aren’t learning crucial critical thinking skills, Daniels says the university must be accountable to students, parents, taxpayers and policy makers. He’s tasked a faculty body with choosing just how Purdue will assess gains in critical thinking and other skills after four years at Purdue, and he wants to start the assessment process soon -- by the fall. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/01/28/purdues-president-and-faculty-clash-over-student-learning-assessment