A Neglected Necessity in Liberal Arts Assessment: The Student as the Unit of Analysis

This chapter describes how the trend favoring assessment initiatives of a system-wide scope such as program review and collegiate learning assessment (CLA) tends to overlook the specific, highly concrete learning experiences of individual students in the liberal arts. These individual cases offer a rich source of data for assessment. The insights that can be derived from a rigorous analysis of such individual experience can tell educators much about learning outcomes, teaching quality, and curricular effectiveness. It is in this regard that this chapter argues for the student as the unit of analysis in assessment initiatives

Is Bioethics Relevant?

Review of: Deciding Who Lives: Fateful Choices in the Intensive-Care Nursery, by Renee R. Anspach. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. All God\u27s Mistakes: Genetic Counseling in a Pediatric Hospital, by Charles L. Bosk. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. Healing Powers: Alternative Medicine, Spiritual Communities, and the State, by Fred M. Frohock. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992

What Are We Trying to Teach?

Review of: The Forest and the Trees: Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise, by Allan G. Johnson. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. Social Things: An Introduction to the Sociological Life, by Charles Lemert Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield, 1997. The Sociologically Examined Life: Pieces of the Conversation, by Michael Schwalbe. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield, 1998

Why Not Read the Best?

Review of: Sigmund Freud, by Robert Bocock. New York: Tavistock Publications & Ellis Horwood Limited, 1983. The Frankfurt School, by Tom Bottomore. New York: Tavistock Publications & Ellis Horwood Limited, 1984. C. Wright Mills, by John Eldridge. New York: Tavistock Publications & Ellis Horwood Limited, 1983. Georg Simmel, by David Frisby. New York: Tavistock Publications & Ellis Horwood Limited, 1984. Talcott Parsons, by Peter Hamilton. New York: Tavistock Publications & Ellis Horwood Limited, 1983. Karl Mannheim, by David Kettler, Volker Meja, and Nico Stehr. New York: Tavistock Publications & Ellis Horwood Limited, 1984

Champions: The Making of Olympic Swimmers

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