Outcomes, Testing, Learning
What's at Stake
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4188021 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Brooks (0000-0003-4915-4986, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 601-611 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-783X • E-ISSN: 1944-768X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/sor.2012.0011 |
| OpenAlex | W1529631961 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
The perception of a crisis in American higher education--proclaimed by numerous books--has led to a call for "outcomes testing," testing of the "value added" by a student's college education. After discussing some examples of such testing (as recommended originally by the 2006 Spellings Commission Report), I ask whether we really want to take such an exclusively instrumental view of knowledge and its uses. The humanities, I believe, do and should promote another kind of knowing that I refer to under the rubric, "the ethics of reading."
Ask price · Commission · Economics · Pedagogy · Perception · Political science · Public relations · Reading (process) · Rubric · Value (mathematics) · Computer Science · Education and Critical Thinking Development · Law · Legal Education and Practice Innovations · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |