The Pivot to Remote Teaching in Spring 2020 and Its Impact

July 20, 2020
A report from Quality Matters and Eduventures Research chronicles the evolution of online policies and practices in U.S. higher education from the perspective of chief online officers. The survey specifically captures leadership reflections on the pandemic-induced emergency remote instruction in the spring: what happened, what worked, and implications for fall.

Varying Degrees

Sept. 11, 2019
Varying Degrees: New America’s Annual Survey on Higher Education surveys 1,600 Americans ages 18 and older to better understand their perceptions of and knowledge about higher education and economic mobility. The survey shows unifying themes as well as differences across age, gender, generation, region, and socioeconomic status when it comes to the value of a…

New Approaches to Judging Quality in Higher Education

June 25, 2018
Spurred by the multiyear economic slowdown of the last decade combined with rapid advances in technology, new and innovative education and career training models have emerged outside of traditional colleges and universities. This report from The Council for Higher Education Accreditation profiles several emerging approaches to defining and measuring quality.

On Solid Ground

March 3, 2017
A report from the Association of American Colleges & Universities represents an attempt to develop a large-scale model for assessing student learning across institutions that goes beyond tests and grades. The study, which incorporates results from the first two years of AAC&U’s national Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education (VALUE) initiative, focuses on three…

Report and Disclose

Oct. 28, 2016
State agencies must do a better job of monitoring the performance of postsecondary institutions, suggests this report from American Enterprise Institute. The study specifically calls upon authorizing agencies to develop minimum performance thresholds; require and disclose program-level outcomes measurements; standardize outcomes measurements across agencies; and minimize institutional reporting while also linking reported data to other…
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