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Assessment at an Urban Community College: From Resistance to Discovery
Author(s) -
LaManna Richard
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
new directions for community colleges
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0733
pISSN - 0194-3081
DOI - 10.1002/cc.20350
Subject(s) - resistance (ecology) , value (mathematics) , work (physics) , community college , psychology , public relations , medical education , sociology , pedagogy , political science , medicine , computer science , engineering , mechanical engineering , ecology , machine learning , biology
This chapter affirms the increasing value of outcomes assessment at one of many institutions where once it was mostly ignored, how the knowledge afforded by increased use of assessment functions as a precursor to change, and how the faculty and staff work of program and outcomes assessment—discussions, decisions, preparations, actions, revisions—helps maintain an evolving, dynamic approach to educating community college students.