Accreditors, speakers at assessment conferences, and campus leaders all decry the fact that too few faculty are closing the loop--that is, studying assessment findings to see what improvements might be suggested and taking the appropriate steps to make them. This is difficult enough with locally developed measures; adding the need to interpret…

Since the publication of "A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform" by the U.S. Department of Education in 1983, American higher education has faced the need to develop its own effective means of learning assessment to forestall the prospect of government-imposed standardized procedures. The latter potential may have moved closed…

There may be many obstacles to faculty and student affairs in higher education collaborating on assessment, but they can be surmounted. Discusses strategies used on campuses across the country that break down some of the cultural, bureaucratic, and leadership barriers. (Author/MKA)