Assessment: Where Are We?.

Ewell, Peter T.

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Publication Date: 1987

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Assessment: Where Are We?

Ewell, Peter T.

Change, v19 n1 p23-28 Jan-Feb 1987

The thrust of most state initiatives is to encourage higher education institutions to undertake their own local assessment. Two kinds of state-wide testing are emerging: (1) basic skills assessment of entering students for access, placement, and remediation, and (2) testing to improve the curriculum. (MLW)

Descriptors: Accrediting Agencies, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement, Institutional Evaluation, Outcomes of Education, Postsecondary Education, Self Evaluation (Groups), State Action, State Boards of Education, Testing

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