Video: Richard Shavelson on How to Rate the Quality of an Education

Andy Nash

From Inside Academia TV

 Key Take-Aways

  • 3:10 - If students aren’t learning, should we leave a fix to the schools? (1 min) 
  • 4:10 - The triangle of faculty, administration and the public (1 min)
  • 6:30 - Lots of learning assessments, but are colleges using the info? (3 mins)
  • 12:30 - Agreeing to go to class but not to take tough subjects (2 mins)
  • 14:30 - What we can assess (and how) in the classroom (2 mins)
  • 17:15 - What incentives for schools to truly improve student learning? (1 min)
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