Learning & Assessment

Blackboard's push brings one of higher ed's biggest companies into new field -- welcome news for some, worrisome for others.

Education Department panel blasts controversial accreditor of liberal education programs, restricting its authority for 6 months.

Listen to some critics of higher education, and you'll hear constant calls for more accountability and assessment. Colleges don't do...

While ETSs paper backs national measures of student outcomes, a discussion reveals differences with U.S. commission's approach.

By now, it is widely accepted that curricular efforts to "engage" students -- to involve them deeply in the process...

State college groups flesh out plan for members to make public a "bundle of information" about learning climate and student outcomes.

As federal panel talks of testing what students learn, college officials accept accountability but fear a national mandate.