Dr. Tammie Cumming serves as Associate Provost and Assistant Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness at Brooklyn College. She has provided educational research and assessment support services in higher education and at ACT Inc. for more than 25 years. Dr. Cumming is a frequent speaker on educational assessment and accreditation on a national/international level and recently […]
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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 […]
Assessment Pioneers Inspire Best Practices in Community Colleges
By Richard LaManna and Michael Roggow on July 6, 2020 in Literature Reviews, Spotlight on People, Vol 1, Issue 2 (Jul 2020)
One of the earliest widely distributed and read statements of assessment was the 2004 book Assessing Student Learning: A Common Sense Guide by Prof. Linda Suskie, one of three important books on outcomes assessment published in that year. Fifteen years ago, the field of outcomes assessment was loosely structured and […]
