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 […]
Learning to Like Brussels Sprouts . . . and Assessment
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 […]
From the Assess@CUNY Staff (Vol 2, Issue 1)
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 […]
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 […]
From the Assess@CUNY Staff (Vol 1, Issue 2)
We welcome you to Volume 1, Issue 2 of Assess@CUNY, an online quarterly publication of the CUNY Assessment Council that supports the Council’s Mission. In our second issue we bring you five articles, all written by CUNY faculty and staff […]
Creating a Charrette Process to Ignite the Conversation on Equity and Inclusion
By Erika R. Carlson, Leslie Craigo, Peter P. Hoontis, Elisabeth Jaffe, Lynn McGee and James Sayegh on July 6, 2020 in Fostering Culture, Institutional, Success Stories, Vol 1, Issue 2 (Jul 2020)
The gaps in graduation and retention rates between ethnic and gender groups continue to be a foremost area of focus at Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), The City University of New York (CUNY). Equity and inclusion is also a critical concern as it relates to faculty and staff. At BMCC, a college-wide initiative, Designing […]
Ensuring Fairness in Unprecedented Times: Grading Our Nation’s Students
By Tammie Cumming, M. David Miller, Jennifer Bergeron and Fredrik deBoer on July 6, 2020 in Fostering Culture, Reflections, Vol 1, Issue 2 (Jul 2020)
For high school and college students across the country, getting through the end of the school year has gotten very complicated. The spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, and the widespread closure of public places in response, has turned […]
