We welcome you to Volume 2, Issue 1 of Assess@CUNY, an online quarterly publication of the CUNY Assessment Council that supports the Council’s Mission. In our second issue we bring […]
Archive | September, 2020
Assessment 101: A CUNY Collaboration
By The Assessment Review on September 17, 2020 in Announcements, Technology, Vol 2, Issue 1 (Sept 2020)
In Summer 2018, members of the CUNY Assessment Council decided to collaborate on developing an online course to benefit faculty and staff across the CUNY system by introducing the basic principles of assessment. With the recently revised Middle States Standards and the increased demand for institutional effectiveness, the timing was ideal for a project of […]
Pedagogical Love during the Age of the Pandemic: Formative Assessments to the Rescue
By Shylaja Akkaraju on September 17, 2020 in Formative Assessment, Pedagogy, Vol 2, Issue 1 (Sept 2020)
Pedagogical love is the genuine care and empathy expressed by a teacher towards a student’s learning experience and growth. This concept became starkly relevant when we transitioned abruptly to an online mode of instruction. During this period, the immense power of the assessment revealed itself while the significance of the grade dimmed somewhat. More specifically, […]
How 20 Years of Education Reform Has Created Greater Inequality
When the Program for International Assessment (PISA) results were released in December 2019, they indicated that the last 20 years and billions of dollars spent on education reform in the USA had been ineffective. But the rankings are misleading. While American students remain roughly the same on aggregate, the top quarter of American students […]
Assessment at an Urban Community College: From Resistance to Discovery
By Richard LaManna on September 17, 2020 in Academic Affairs, Fostering Culture, Vol 2, Issue 1 (Sept 2020)
Over the past decade, resistance to assessment has dwindled, no doubt because of two factors. One is compliance. Regional accreditors across the country are exerting more pressure and enforcing stricter oversight at institutes of higher education under the pressure of the federal government. Rather than risk […]
