Arum, R., Roksa, J., and Cook, A. Improving Quality in American Higher Education: Learning Outcomes and Assessments for the 21st Century. San Francisco, California: Jossey-Bass, 2016.
Improving Quality in American Higher Education: Learning Outcomes and Assessments for the 21st Century documents the work of the Measuring College Learning (MCL) Project, an initiative coordinated by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) in collaboration with representatives of six disciplinary associations and disciplinary faculty drawn from a range of institutions. The MCL Project identifies and addresses two challenges associated with defining and assessing learning: a scarcity of faculty voices in discussions of disciplinary learning outcomes and assessment, and a dearth of high-quality discipline-specific assessment measures. To address these challenges, MCL Project participants developed essential learning outcomes for each of the six disciplines and recommendations for improving disciplinary assessment measures. Two of the book’s editors, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, wrote the widely cited (and controversial) Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses and Adults Adrift: Tentative Transition of College Graduates; the third editor, Amanda Cook, is assistant director of the Education Research Program at SSRC.
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