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How Can Student Learning Best Be Advanced? Achieving Systematic Improvement in Liberal Education
The Teagle Foundation
On October 9-11, 2008, The Teagle and Spencer Foundations co-sponsored a conference on how student learning can best be advanced. The event took place at the Washington Duke Inn, in Durham, North Carolina, and over the 3 days of the meeting, the over 120 people there—a mix of national higher education leaders, senior campus administrators, faculty members, and others—reported on and sought to advance efforts to improve student learning.
Mapping general education outcomes in the major: Intentionality and transparency
Cuevas, N.M., Matveev, A.G., & Miller, K.O.
2010
Association of American Colleges and Universities
This article provides a brief overview of a program curriculum mapping model - a practical tool that a number of departments at Norfolk State University (NSU) utilize - to study and improve transparency and intentionality of degree program curricula in the context of institution-wide, general education core competencies.
Statement of mutual responsibilities for student learning outcomes: Accreditation, institutions, and programs
Council for Higher Education Accreditation
2003
This statement is offered to characterize the work of accreditors, institutions and programs with respect to student learning outcomes. It is intended to provide a common platform upon which to develop appropriate policies and review processes that use evidence of student learning to improve practice, to improve communication with important constituents, and to inform judgments about quality.
The framework provides a set of key institutional elements that need to be addressed in order to bring about sustainable change. The framework is intended to be a living resource that showcases innovative institutional efforts that are already being conducted by universities to implement elements of the framework. Showcased here are institutional efforts mapped to elements of the framework.
The role of institutional assessment in assessing student learning outcomes
Bers, T.H.
2008
Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Institutional Research has the potential to play an important role in assessment of student learning outcomes by lending leadership and assistance to departmental and institutional efforts.
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