Faculty union leaders support assessment

From today's Chronicle of Higher Education. A couple of quotes to get you going:

The leaders of three large faculty unions say they support assessments of student learning as a means of informing instruction and curriculum, according to a new paper being released by the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, an organization that encourages the use of assessment data to shape the conversation about undergraduate education.

In the paper, Lawrence Gold, director of the higher-education department of the American Federation of Teachers, Gary Rhoades, general secretary of the American Association of University Professors, and Mark Smith, a senior policy analyst in higher education of the National Education Association present a united front in advocating that, with local control, faculty should use student-learning assessments to improve students' experiences in the classroom.

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