Assessing School Effectiveness
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Assessing school effectiveness.
The Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) program measures value added in colleges and universities, by testing the ability of freshmen and seniors to think logically and write clearly. The program is popular enough that it has attracted critics. In this paper, we outline the methods used by the CLA to determine value added. We summarize the criticisms, which revolve around the question of which...
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عنوان ژورنال: Evaluation Review
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0193-841X,1552-3926
DOI: 10.1177/0193841x08325948