{"id":692,"date":"2017-03-23T14:49:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T14:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library19.providence.edu\/fhertr\/?p=692"},"modified":"2017-03-23T14:49:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T14:49:17","slug":"survey-of-administrators-on-learning-outcomes-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/2017\/03\/23\/survey-of-administrators-on-learning-outcomes-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey of Administrators on Learning Outcomes Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little over a year ago, the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&amp;U) came out with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aacu.org\/publications-research\/publications\/trends-learning-outcomes-assessment-key-findings-survey-among\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">results of a survey of college and university administrators<\/a> on the subject of learning outcomes assessment. \u00a0This was a follow-up to the AAC&amp;U&#8217;s 2009 survey on the same topic. \u00a0Among the more important findings of the most recent survey are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An increasing number of institutions, 85% in 2016, have a common set of learning outcomes for all their undergraduates.<\/li>\n<li>There is a consensus on the importance of key learning outcomes such as writing skills, critical thinking, and quantitative reasoning.<\/li>\n<li>In addition to institution-wide learning outcomes, more institutions have department-level learning outcomes and assessment procedures.<\/li>\n<li>There is no single approach to assessment, and responding institutions use a wide variety of methods to assess student learning outcomes.<\/li>\n<li>Over half of the responding institutions either use or where influenced by the AAC&amp;U&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aacu.org\/value\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VALUE rubric project<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Many institutions are investigating the potential of electronic portfolios, but only 7% required them for all students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little over a year ago, the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&amp;U) came out with the results of a survey of college and university administrators on the subject of learning outcomes assessment. \u00a0This was a follow-up to the AAC&amp;U&#8217;s 2009 survey on the same topic. \u00a0Among the more important findings of the most &#8230; <a title=\"Survey of Administrators on Learning Outcomes Assessment\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/2017\/03\/23\/survey-of-administrators-on-learning-outcomes-assessment\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Survey of Administrators on Learning Outcomes Assessment\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,4,2,32,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-continuing-education-professional-programs","category-curriculum_programming","category-general","category-high-impact-practices","category-liberal-arts","category-pedagogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.providence.edu\/fhertr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}