Kicking and Screaming
How One Truculent Sociology Department Made Peace with Mandatory Assessment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11064296 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roger Clark (0000-0003-4167-6317, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, USA, corresponding author), Rachel Filinson (Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, USA) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 127-137 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Teaching Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-055X • E-ISSN: 1939-862X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0092055x11400439 |
| OpenAlex | W2107190719 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 14 |
The authors provide an account of their department’s minimalist and largely reluctant approach to mandatory assessment in the past decade. A decade earlier, the department had gone all out in an experimental assessment effort supported by the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, an effort the department was neither willing nor able to make once the college’s accreditation agency mandated assessment in 2000. The authors describe another “less-than-ideal design” that has nonetheless involved many of the assessment elements described elsewhere (e.g., alumni and student surveys, classroom assignments, external reviewers, research papers) and has nonetheless yielded usable and utilized feedback for both teaching and curriculum construction
Accreditation · Agency (philosophy · Ideal (ethics · Management · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Screaming · Social science · Sociology · Evaluation of Teaching Practices · Law · Psychology · Reflective Practices in Education · Student Assessment and Feedback
Student Engagement and Student Learning
Improving the Assessment of Student Learning
Curriculum Assessment
Outcomes Assessment in Sociology
The Current Status of Assessment in Sociology Departments
Assessment as Critical Praxis
Assessment Abuse by Design
Addressing Career Obstacles within a Changing Higher Education Work Environment
Morale and Workplace Performance
Empowerment Redux
Organizational Success and Worker Dignity
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,35 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2020 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |