It is often argued that as "consumers" of higher education, students, parents and leaders need objective, comparative information generated through systematized assessment. In response, we critique this trend toward reductionist, comparative, and ostensibly objective assessments in the United States. We describe how management has…

Teachers tasked with developing moral character in future physicians face an array of pedagogic challenges, among them identifying tools to measure progress in instilling the requisite skill set. One validated instrument for assessing moral judgment is the Defining Issues Test (DIT-2). Based on the work of Lawrence Kohlberg, the test's main…

Discusses need for measuring the impact of career counseling in a more precise and meaningful way. Includes some of the issues raised by a survey of career counseling outcome research. Implications of these issues are presented in the form of a set of recommendations for researchers. (Author)

Discusses the misuse of measurement criteria and presents four court cases that are indicative of a trend in favor of valid performance measures. Topics include fairness; tests that match performance criteria; ethical issues; types of validity measurement; measurement variables, including organizational needs and individual needs; and using the…

This paper was commissioned to develop new perspectives on the evaluation of the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) for Citizenship and Social Studies. It criticizes the assessment model and advocates three new approaches to evaluating social studies education: a comparative approach with direct international comparisons of programs…