Faculty Reading Group
Accountability in Higher Ed?
How does Carleton participate in the national conversation?All meetings are at Headley House, 815 E. 2nd St., from 4:30-6 p.m.
Readings
For Thursday, 27 September:
AAC&U, Executive summary: “College Learning for the New Global Century”
Lloyd Bond, “Teaching to the Test”
Lloyd Bond, “Who has the lowest prices?”
Tomorrow’s Professor #569, “Reliability and Validity”
Tomorrow’s Professor #48, “Faculty Learning and Institutional Change”
Laurie Fendrich, “A Pedagogical Straitjacket”
The Washington Post, “A Learning Experience”
David Glenn, “You Will be Tested on This”
For Thursday, 11 October:
Spellings Commission, A Test of Leadership
For Thursday, 25 October (Guest: Bill Condon, Washington State University)
Lee Shulman, “Counting and Recounting: Assessment and the Quest for Accountability”
Carol Schneider, “Higher Learning and the Accountability Debate”
Jane Shaw, “Time to Step Back”
Bernard Fryshman, “Score One for the Secretary”
Jeremy Penn, “Assessment for ‘Us’ and Assessment for ‘Them’”
Donna Engelman, “Assessment From the Ground Up”
Mary Huber, et al., “Leading Initiatives for Integrative Learning”
