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Kicking and Screaming

How One Truculent Sociology Department Made Peace with Mandatory Assessment

Bibliographic Data

ID11064296
AuthorsRoger Clark (0000-0003-4167-6317, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, USA, corresponding author), Rachel Filinson (Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, USA)
Year2011
Volume39
Issue2
Pages127-137
Publication date2011-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTeaching Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0092-055X • E-ISSN: 1939-862X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0092055x11400439
OpenAlexW2107190719
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited14

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

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Unique citing works6
Citations per year0,35
Citation span2009 - 2020 (12)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 6
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