Higher Education Just Doesn't Know If Students Are Learning

But here's the big open secret in American higher education: Most institutions have no meaningful way to measure the quality of their instruction. At most institutions, including my own, we have no idea if they are. Sure, professors assign grades in their courses, and students are asked to evaluate the classes they take and the professors who teach them. But neither measure gives us any real answer to the $200,000 question: What knowledge or skills are students acquiring in exchange for the skyrocketing tuition they pay? And we now have some alarming national data to suggest the answer: not nearly enough. Read more at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-zimmerman-are-college-students-learning-20120131,0,3266290.story