Report to The Teagle Foundation on a Listening on Assessment
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On January 18, 2007, at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Teagle Foundation convened about 20 administrators, faculty, and graduate students from prestigious research I universities for an open discussion on the uses of assessment—systematic measuring to identify specific learning gains—to invigorate undergraduate teaching. The meeting carried forward to the research universities an investigation that Teagle has been developing in other Listenings with liberal arts colleges.
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