Why Assessment?

Abstract

Outcomes assessment is necessary in higher education partly because it can counteract courseocentrism, the assumption teaching naturally occurs in isolated classrooms that leave teachers knowing little about one another and that leave students vulnerable to confusingly mixed messages as they go from course to course and subject to subject.

Journal
Pedagogy
Published
2010-01-01
DOI
10.1215/15314200-2009-028
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