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From The Assessment Review Editorial Staff (Vol 3, Issue 1)

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Welcome to The Assessment Review: A City University of New York (CUNY) Publication.  Our earlier publication, ASSESS@CUNY, has been relaunched with a new title, an expanded focus, and a larger dedicated staff.  In this issue we bring you articles written by CUNY faculty and staff […]

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Learning to Like Brussels Sprouts . . . and Assessment

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There are three stages to teaching: planning, instruction, and assessment. For many of us one of these stages is more satisfying than the others. We may be better versed in one more than the others. In those areas in which we are weak, or not as well versed, we might avoid or instead just “fly by the seat of our pants.” Instead of avoiding those stages where we feel less confident, we can […]

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NCLB Turns 20: When Assessment is Used to Disguise a Dark Agenda

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This January the vaunted education legislation known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) will turn 20. Signed in the wake of 9/11 and sold as a revolutionary piece of legislation to help all children learn, NCLB leveraged a general naivete of how to measure student success to support an agenda of private interventions that generated billions of dollars in profits for shareholders while offering little in the way of fair and high-quality education. NCLB caused such a dramatic shift […]

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How Do We Know What We Know?

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As scholars, we spend years training in our disciplines, developing techniques to make meaning of the world. As a chemist, I start with a hunch about a chemical reaction, then design experiments and measurements to collect data that provide insight into the reaction. From there, I continue with the iterative process of hypothesizing, experimenting, measuring, and analyzing. For me, engagement in the scientific research process began […]

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Tammie Cumming

Interview: with Dr. Tammie Cumming

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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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Accreditation Standards to Include Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) are rooted in the cultural identity and lexicon of a civil society. However, in 2020, these words became aggressively polarizing among groups in America. Along with polarization, Americans either became fearful of their neighbors, separated from those who were different, were moved to a new awakening that there is much work to be done to reaffirm that […]

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