Assessment and Academic Freedom: In Concert, Not Conflict. Occasional Paper #22

Autor/in	Cain, Timothy Reese
Institution	National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment
Titel	Assessment and Academic Freedom: In Concert, Not Conflict. Occasional Paper #22
Quelle	(2014), (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Educational Assessment; Academic Freedom; College Faculty; Outcome Measures; Governance; Tenure; Colleges; Adjunct Faculty; Teacher Role; Accountability; Academic Achievement; Outcomes of Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Akademische Freiheit; Fakultät; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Amtszeit; Beschäftigungsdauer; College; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Lehrerrolle; Verantwortung; Schulleistung; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg
Abstract	Scholars and practitioners of learning outcomes assessment widely recognize the importance of faculty engagement with the planning and implementation of assessment activities. Yet garnering participation by the majority of faculty has remained a significant challenge due in part to faculty concerns over the purposes of assessment, the value that it holds, and the costs of its implementation. In this paper I consider another claim that contributes to faculty resistance: that learning outcomes assessment is a fundamental abridgment of academic freedom. Granted, assessment activities can be imposed in ways that violate faculty rights, but such a consequence is not inevitable. Faculty control of the curriculum and effective shared governance set the stage for assessment that supports and builds on the faculty's ongoing efforts while protecting their historic and essential right to academic freedom. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10