Assessing and Reporting Student Progress: a Response to the "New Accountability."

Autor/inn/en	Ewell, Peter T.; Jones, Dennis P.
Institution	State Higher Education Executive Officers Association.
Titel	Assessing and Reporting Student Progress: a Response to the "New Accountability."
Quelle	(1991), (58 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Academic Achievement; Academic Persistence; Accountability; Educational Assessment; Educational Policy; Higher Education; Information Technology; Politics of Education; Stopouts; Student Evaluation; Transfer Students; User Needs (Information) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Verantwortung; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Informationstechnologie; Educational policy; Ausstieg; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Hochschulwechsel; Schulwechsel; Studienortwechsel; Benutzerbedürfnis
Abstract	This paper reviews current approaches for tracking student progress in postsecondary education, focusing on the context of emerging policy and information needs at the state, national and institutional levels and on the capabilities and limits of currently available information technology. The paper consists of six main sections. First the growing requirements for consistent data reporting on student progress are examined in the light of some wider national policy trends. Second, the methodological requirements for generating meaningful information about student persistence and degree-completion and the current capacities of states and institutions to generate such statistics are discussed. The third section contains a comprehensive review of persisting issues, including such topics as who should be included in reporting, and how to handle such enrollment phenomena as "stop-outs" and inter-institutional transfers. Section four addresses these issues through a set of "minimal" recommendations for data collection and reporting. Two concluding sections examine the implications of these ideas for future developments including possible uses (and misuses) of the resulting data, and how results might potentially be linked with available state and national "levers for change." Seven references. (JB)
Anmerkungen	State Higher Education Executive Officers, 707 Seventeenth Street, Suite 2700, Denver, CO 80202-3427.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01