Grading the College - A History of Evaluating Teaching and Learning

By providing a deeper understanding of how evaluation operated before the dawn of high-stakes accountability, Grading the College seeks to promote productive conversations about current attempts to define and measure the purposes of American higher education.

About the author

Scott M. Gelber is an associate professor of education and (by courtesy) history at Wheaton College. He is the author of The University and the People: Envisioning American Higher Education in an Era of Populist Protest and Courtrooms and Classrooms: A Legal History of College Access, 1860–1960.

Summary

By providing a deeper understanding of how evaluation operated before the dawn of high-stakes accountability, Grading the College seeks to promote productive conversations about current attempts to define and measure the purposes of American higher education.

Product details

• Authors: Scott M Gelber, Scott M. Gelber, Scott M. (Assistant Professor of Education Gelber, Scott M. (Assistant Professor of Education and History Gelber, Gelber Scott M.
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781421438160
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-3816-0
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; EDUCATION / History, EDUCATION / Evaluation & Assessment, History of Education, History of the Americas, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Education: examinations & assessment, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher