Assessing Student Achievement in General Education

Standardized tests have been cyclically resurrected as assessment tools and repeatedly found wanting. This new issue looks at the broad range of skills; effective writing, information literacy, critical/analytical thinking, moral awareness, general communication ability, and more; desired in college graduates and explores the difficulties in designing successful measures of general education learning outcomes that satisfy all stakeholders. Click here to view all five installments of Trudy Banta's "Assessment Update Collections."Trudy W. Banta and Associates is the author of 'Assessing Student Achievement in General Education ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780787995737 and ISBN 0787995738.