Learning & Assessment

New study dumps cold water on the value of wage data to prospective students who are place bound and headed to less-selective colleges.

The college completion agenda reaches an inflection point as the Obama administration ends and the nation increasingly focuses on jobs and college value. Experts assess shifts in the completion push and what comes next.

Focus on any single labor market metric to judge colleges’ outcomes will create flawed policy, but a mix of such measures can help evaluate institutions’ performance, scholarly study finds.

Among other things, assessors routinely ignore standard design principles and practices that are considered essential in most valid research.

By Erik Gilbert

U of Illinois System and some legislators back plan to end budget impasse by putting limits on tuition increases and out-of-state enrollments.

Student engagement survey finds black students are more than twice as likely as other students to feel "physically unsafe" on campus, and that black professors interact more with their students than do other professors.

The traditional definition of at-risk students is wrong, and we need to do more to help students caught in an institutional blind spot, write Angela Baldasare, Melissa Vito and Vincent J. Del Casino Jr.

By Angela Baldasare et al.

A random review finds five of 10 institutions fell short on backing up claims about graduates' job placement success.