Learning & Assessment

AFT urges professors to join "student success" discussions locally and nationally -- while trying to reframe debate.

Sloan Consortium develops standardized metrics for assessing quality of online programs.

Editors discuss new collection on measuring learning in disciplines with knowledge that is not easy to measure.

Colleges need to harness their own research expertise to focus on how students advance or fail to do so, writes Diana Chapman Walsh.

As U.S. panel studying accreditation begins to set agenda, it is urged to focus on "prodding" over "fixing."

Voluntary accountability system for community colleges releases first draft set of standards for small group of two-year institutions to test.

California's Compton Community College loses recognition over range of management issues.

Education secretary asks his advisory committee on accreditation for legislative suggestions for the next renewal of the Higher Education Act.