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Assessing NSSE

November 24, 2009

The survey of student engagement has been widely embraced as an accountability tool. But it's flawed as a measure of campus learning, Mark Schneider writes, and even weaker when used for comparing colleges.

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(Skilled) Self-Presentation

November 23, 2009

Timothy Burke wonders whether students -- despite all the speaking they do in college -- learn how to talk about themselves and their ideas.

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A Defense of the Lecture

November 20, 2009

Adam Kotsko questions the idea that small discussion-based courses are the ideal form of undergraduate education.

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Reviving the Academic Library

November 19, 2009

Instead of trying to turn themselves into something they're not -- a center of fundamental learning -- campus libraries should focus on their traditional core mission of supporting education and research, writes Johann Neem.

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