A Measure of Learning Is Put to the Test - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views
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"The CLA is really an authentic assessment process,"
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Joshua Yeidel on 20 Sep 10What is the meaning of "authentic" in this statement? It certainly isn't "situated in the real world" or "of intrinsic value".
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add CLA-style assignments to their liberal-arts courses.
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the CLA typically reports scores on a "value added" basis, controlling for the scores that students earned on the SAT or ACT while in high school.
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"If a college pays attention to learning and helps students develop their skills—whether they do that by participating in our programs or by doing things on their own—they probably should do better on the CLA,"
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"Standardized tests of generic skills—I'm not talking about testing in the major—are so much a measure of what students bring to college with them that there is very little variance left out of which we might tease the effects of college," says Ms. Banta, who is a longtime critic of the CLA. "There's just not enough variance there to make comparative judgments about the comparative quality of institutions."
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A summary of the current state of "thinking" with regard to CLA. Many fallacies and contradictions are (unintentionally) exposed. At least CLA appears to be more about skills than content (though the question of how it is graded isn't even raised), but the "performance task" approach is the smallest possible step in that direction.