In his letter to the editor (“The Value Added in College,” The Chronicle, June 27), Philip Garcia said he could not find any empirical evidence indicating that the Collegiate Learning Assessment’s ...

If you dreaded the SATs in high school, beware: A new post-collegiate exam might have you sweating this spring. The Collegiate Learning Assessment Plus (CLA+) presented by the Council for Aid to ...

More than U.S. 200 colleges and universities will administer the exam to measure graduating students%27 worth to prospective employers If you dreaded the SATs in high school, beware: A new ...

Because of the great significance of learning-outcomes assessment in Washington and on campuses across the nation, I believe it’s important to lay out clearly the position of the National Association ...

HUNTINGTON -- Last spring, 101 Marshall University seniors voluntarily took the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA), a test that assesses students’ critical thinking, analytic reasoning, problem ...

Nonprofits will seek opportunities to ensure assessments and curricula measure and teach essential skills most important to secondary and higher education students and institutions The like-minded ...

As colleges have faced increasing pressure in recent years to demonstrate that students learn something while enrolled, many have turned to tests of learning outcomes, such as the Collegiate Learning ...

Testing firms are offering new ways to measure what students learn in college. Their next generation of assessments is billed as an add-on – rather than a replacement – to the college degree. But the ...

The accountability movement has arrived in higher education. Hundreds of colleges are testing freshmen and seniors to measure learning from enrollment to graduation. More than 100 schools have ...

The book is based on information from 24 schools, meant to be a representative sample, that provided Collegiate Learning Assessment data on students who took the standardized test in their first ...

When the University of Texas announced its “Framework for Advancing Excellence” at this time last year, many Texans who support our institutions of higher learning, including those of us at the Texas ...