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Author(s):American Association of Colleges and Universities
Title:Value added assessment: Accountability's new frontier
Source:http://www.aascu.org/pdf/06_perspectives.pdf
Date:2006
Organization:American Association of Colleges and Universities
Short Description:This paper contends that the time has come for states and their public colleges and universities, in conjunction with regional accrediting agencies, to lead the development of a consensus model for assessing the value added from undergraduate student learning.
Annotation:This paper contends that the time has come for states and their public colleges and universities, in conjunction with regional accrediting agencies, to lead the development of a consensus model for assessing the value added from undergraduate student learning. A value added system could better reflect the contributions of undergraduate institutions to student learning and workforce and economic development.
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2011 Survey of differential tuition at public higher education institutions
Finding your workforce: The top 25 institutions graduating Latinos
2012 State of the state addresses: Governors' top education issues
Race to the top: What have we learned from the states so far? A state-by-state evaluation of Race to the Top performance
The role of minority-serving institutions in redefining and improving developmental education
Beyond the master plan: The case for restructuring baccalaureate education in California
Documenting uncertain times: Post-graduate transitions of the Academically Adrift cohort
2012 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
On the road to success
Much accomplished, much at stake: Performance and policy in Maryland higher education
Lightening the load: A look at four ways that community schools can support effective teaching
Adolescent literacy
A public education primer: Basic (and sometimes surprising) facts about the U.S. education system
Building pathways to transfer: Community colleges that break the chain of failure for students of color
The arts and achievement in at-risk youth: Findings from four longitudinal studies
Taking action for America: A CEO plan for jobs and economic growth
An analysis of learning outcomes of underrepresented students at urban institutions
Fault lines in our democracy: Civic knowledge, voting behavior and civic engagement in the United States
An undeveloped national resource: The unrealized potential of the nation's career/technical centers
The effect of housing wealth on college choice: Evidence from the housing boom
Data quality campaign 2012 snapshot
Competency-based degree programs in the US: Postsecondary credentials for measurable student learning and performance
Assuring academic quality in the 21st century: Self-regulation in a new era
Teaching and learning in the era of the Common Core: The Students at the Center series ebook
Using state policies to ensure effective assessment and placement in postsecondary education
Middle school counselor's guide: NOSCA's eight components of college and career readiness counseling
View from the field: How to launch district virtual learning
Rethinking remedial education: The role of MSIs in serving underreprepared students in the 21st century
Critical perspectives on race and equity in review of higher education
Learn and earn: Modeling the success of Metropolitan College: The Business-Higher Education Forum's simulation series
The global gender gap index: 2011
Crossing the finish line: A national effort to address near completion
The state of young America: Economic barriers to the American dream
Leveraging service blueprinting to rethink higher education
Assessing deeper learning
Hidalgo early college district toolkit
Trends in student aid 2011
Learning at a distance: Undergraduate enrollment in distance education courses and degree programs
Using community colleges to build a STEM-skilled workforce
High school longitudinal study of 2009: A first look at fall 2009 ninth-graders parents', teachers, school counselors, and school administrators
National adult learners satisfaction-priorities report
Education at a glance 2011: OECD indicators
Financial literacy at minority-serving institutions
Cohort default rates in context
Teaching and learning in large classes at Ontario Universities
Assimilation tomorrow: How America's immigrants will integrate by 2030
Issues facing historically black colleges and unversities: Results of a focused discussion and survey
Poised to lead: How school counselors can drive college and career readiness
Operation College Promise
Pathway to recovery: Implementing a back on track through college model
Data that matters: Giving high schools useful feedback on grads' outcomes
Striving for student success: A model of shared accountability
Equity scorecard: A process for building institutional capacity to educate young men of color
The nation's report card: Trial urban district assessment mathematics 2011
STEM: Good jobs now and for the future
Estimating the return to college selectivity over the career using administrative earnings data
Unlocking doors and expanding opportunity: Moving beyond the limiting reality of college and career readiness in California high schools
From information to action: Revamping higher education accountability systems
Complete to Compete: Higher education data dashboards (state reports)
The college payoff: Education, occupations, and lifetime earnings
Expanded measures of school performance
Designing common assessments to be measures of college and career readiness: Challenges and opportunities
Most Americans see college as essential to getting a good job
Not just kid stuff anymore: The economic imperative for more adults to complete college
Optimism, college major, and post-secondary dropout
Federal higher education policy and the profitable nonprofits
Improving college performance and retention the easy way: Unpacking the ACT exam
Is college worth it? College presidents, public assess value, quality and mission of higher education
Leaving no worker behind: Community colleges retrain the Michigan workforce-and themselves
Creating opportunities in health care: The community college role in workforce partnerships
Across the great divide: Perspectives of CEOs and college presidents on America's higher education and skills gap
Implementing the common core state standards: An action agenda for higher education
Transforming high schools: Performance systems for powerful teaching
Voluntary Framework of Acountability (VFA) proposed stage one measures
Profiting from health care: The role of for-profit schools in training the health care workforce
Introduction to the Community College Research Center (CCRC) assessment of evidence series
Roadmap for ensuring America's future
The effects of student coaching in college: An evaluation of a randomized experiment in student mentoring
Accelerating college readiness: Lessons from North Carolina's innovator early colleges
A measured approach to improving teacher preparation
Building roads to success: Key considerations for communities and states reconnecting youth to education
Building capacity for reconnecting youth
Yes we can: The Schott state report on black males and education (national and state reports)
Leisure college USA: The decline in student study time
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating African-American students
Big gaps, small gaps: Some colleges and universities do better than others in graduating Hispanic students
Are you gainfully employed? Setting standards for for-profit degrees
Effectiveness of fully online courses for college students: Response to a department of education meta-analysis
The economic benefits of reducing the dropout rate among students of color in the nation's largest metropolitan areas
Collaborating to create change: How El Paso Community College improved the readiness of its incoming students through Achieving the Dream
FloridaCAN! Empowering communities to work alongside our schools for student success
New approaches to improving college access, persistence, and success: Three exemplary postsecondary opportunity programs
Lumina Foundation focus: The productivity push: System wide reform allows Arizona to serve more students
How increasing college access is increasing inequality, and what to do about it
ABE career connections: A manual for integrating Adult Basic Education into Career Pathways
Education pays 2010
Tuition discounting: Institutional aid patterns at public and private colleges and universities, 2000-01 to 2008-09
Why is college so expensive?
Getting what we pay for: State community college funding strategies that benefit low-income, lower-skilled students
NACAC member attitudes toward U.S. News & World Report rankings: The first in a three-part series
Divided we fail in LA: Improving completion and closing racial gaps in the Los Angeles community college district
Strengthening college opportunity and performance: Federal, state and institutional leadership
State high school tests: Exit exams and other assessments
The 2010 Brown Center report on American education
College access challenge grants: Including adult learners, strengthening student success
False fronts? Behind higher education's voluntary accountability systems
A new paradigm for economic development: How higher education insitutions are working to revitalize their regional and state economies
The 2009 Brown Center report on American education: How well are American students learning?
State R&D and k-12 STEM Education Report Cards
Case studies of three community colleges: The policy and practice of assessing and placing students in developmental education courses
Reaching higher: Strategic initiatives for higher education in Indiana (Updated 2010 Version)
Writing to read: Evidence for how writing can improve reading
Florida policy options to accelerate Latino student success in higher education
Good data. Better policy. Stronger commitment. Improved outcomes.
A new national approach to career navigation for working learners
State Higher Education Finance FY 2009
High school dropouts and the economic losses from juvenile crime in California
Enhancing school reform through expanded learning
Restructuring 'restructuring': Improving interventions for low-performing schools and districts
College and career ready graduation: Strengthening the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Federal higher education policy priorities and the Asian American and Pacific Islander community
The path forward: The future of graduate education in the United States
ETS Policy Notes: Advancing learning for our diverse adult population
Rebalancing the mission: The community college completion challenge
The rising price of inequality: How inadequate grant aid limits college access and persistence
Managing contracts for educational equity: Emerging trends and issues
The promise of proficiency: How college proficiency information can help high schools drive student success
Rising by Degrees
Keeping middle grades students on the path to success in high school: Increasing engagement and achievement in SREB states
A shared agenda: P-12 and postsecondary policy recommendations: Moving toward a more cohesive continuum of federal support for college opportunity
BC AVID: Early implementation report
Assessment for improvement: Tracking student engagement over time (NSSE 2009 Annual Report)
No time to lose: Why America needs an education amendment to the US Constitution to improve public education
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: P-20 longitudinal data systems
Race to the Top: Accelerating college and career readiness in states: Low-performing schools
Mathematics benchmarks grades K-12
Chasing the same dream, climbing different ladders: Economic mobility in the United States and Canada
A penny saved is mobility earned: Advancing economic mobility through savings
Current challenges and opportunities in preparing rural high school students for success in college and careers: What federal policymakers need to know
Squeeze play 2010: Continued public anxiety on cost, harsher judgements on how colleges are run
Communities of color: A critical perspective in the Common Standards movement
Preparing students for college and career: Linked learning in California
Principles for a comprehensive assessment system
Multiple Pathways in California: A New Option for High School Reform
Gaining support from campus leaders: A project brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Increasing student engagement through faculty development: A practice brief based on BEAMS project outcomes
Comparative indicators of education in the United States and other G-8 countries: 2009
The Bologna Process for US eyes: Re-learning higher education in the Age of Convergence
Sizing up state standards: 2008
Learning around the clock: Benefits of expanded learning opportunities for older youth
Action required: Addressing the nation's lowest performing high schools
Next generation state data system: What is needed to support the next generation assessment and accountability systems
Big questions, practical answers: New strategies for setting and moving a higher education agenda
Pathways to boosting the earnings of low-income students by increasing their educational attainment
Recommended policies and practices for advancing Indiana's system of adult education and workforce training
Beyond social justice: The threat of inequality to workforce development in the Western United States
College portrait of undergraduate education (search and comparison tool for participating college and universities by state)
The misplaced math student: Lost in eighth-grade Algebra
Economic and noneconomic outcomes for GED credential recipients
Military service members and veterans in higher education: What the new GI Bill may mean for postsecondary institutions
Investing in disadvantaged young children is an economically efficient policy
Raising rigor, getting results: Lessons learned from AP expansion
College readiness and high school-to-college success
The role and relevance of rankings in higher education policymaking
Hispanicity and educational inequality: Risks, opportunities and the nation's future
Removing roadblocks to rigor: Linking academic and social supports to ensure college readiness and success
Setting up success in developmental education: How state policy can help community colleges improve student success outcomes
Finding a way: Practical examples of how a principal-counselor relationship can lead to success for all students
Outcomes of high impact practices for underserved students: A review of the literature
Top ten state policy issues for higher education in 2009
Enhancing college student success through developmental education
Setting the '08 education agenda for the nation: Benchmarking to international standards while protecting the public's traditional commitment to a comprehensive education
A disturbing trend in law school diversity
National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)
Building a culture of evidence for community college student success: Early progress in the Achieving the Dream initiative
Characteristics of minority-serving institutions and minority undergraduates enrolled in these institutions
Indiana's best buys: An in-depth look at Hoosier high schools
State college- and career-ready high school graduation requirements
Economic mobility of black and white families
Cramming: The effects of school accountability on college-bound students
Lost in transition: Building a better path from school to college and careers
Closing the expectations gap, 2008
Promoting academic momentum at community colleges: Challenges and opportunities
Feeling the Florida heat? How low-performing schools respond to voucher and accountability pressure
Wealth mobility and volatility in black and white
When girls don't graduate, we all fail
Out of many, one: Toward rigorous common core standards from the ground up
Career and technical education in the United States: 1990-2005
The fiscal impacts of college attainment
Supporting English language acquisition: Opportunities for foundations to strengthen the social and economic well-being of immigrant families
Strengthening state adult education policies for low-skilled workers
Adult learners: A data and policy perspective
National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: The educational experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native students in grades 4 and 8
New England Journal of Higher Education
National Center for Learning Disabilities
Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs
State policies to bring adult learning into focus
National evaluation of GEAR UP: A summary of the first two years
The minds of boys
The male achievement gap in Indiana
What every college access practitioner should know about: Economic diversity in Indiana and U.S. colleges and universities
Measuring up 2006 state report card on education: Indiana
Low educational attainments continue to penalise people in many OECD countries
Postsecondary Education English Spanish Glossary
To ensure America's future: Building a national opportunity system for adults
Investing in the education of older students: A summary of the evidence
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing: How perceptions of costs and benefits affect access to education
Standards for what? The economic roots of K-16 reform
NCHEMS information center
Access for all? Debating in-state tuition for undocumented alien students
The educational pipeline: Big investment, big returns
Education pays 2004: The benefits of higher education for individuals and society
Choosing to improve: Voices from colleges and universities with better graduation rates
The educational, social, and economic benefits of making informed and considered career decisions
What's at stake? The social and economic benefits of higher education
The economic benefits of the Dream Act and the Student Adjustment Act
Value added: The costs and benefits of college preparatory programs in the united states
Courses count: Preparing students for postsecondary success
School relationships foster success for African American students
Investing in America's future: Why student aid pays off for society and individuals
Questions that matter: Setting the research agenda on access and success in postsecondary education
Capturing the college potential of students from under-served populations: An analysis of efforts to overcome social and financial barriers to college, executive summary
Student success: Statewide P-16 systems -- high quality teaching
The literacy of America's college students
Ithaca College - Frederick Douglass Academy Partnership
Education and the economy: An indicators report
The contributions of economics to the study of college access and success
Schools to watch
Collaborative efforts in student retention: A snapshot of best practices across the nation
The Indiana workforce: An employer's perspective
Promoting school readiness through universal preschool
Can separate be equal? The overlooked flaw at the center of No Child Left Behind
Early childhood education: Investing in quality makes sense
Early childhood investment yields big payoff
Career pathways: Aligning public resources to support individual and regional economic advancement in the knowledge economy
The high cost of high school dropouts: What the nation pays for inadequate high schools
Healthier and wealthier: Decreasing healthcare costs by increasing educational attainment
Demography as destiny: How America can build a better future
Teacher attrition: A costly loss to the nation and to the states
Guidance and career counselor's toolkit: Advising high school students with disabilities on postsecondary options
From cradle to career: Connecting American education from birth through adulthood; California state report
Breaking the cycle of poverty starts with learning
Mounting pressures facing the U.S. workforce and the increasing need for adult education and literacy
High school teaching for the twenty-first century: Preparing students for college
In pursuit of a diverse science, technology, engineering, and mathematics workforce: Recommended research priorities to enhance participation by underrepresented minorities
Making performance accountability work: English lessons for U.S. community colleges
LearnMore Indiana 2006-07 report: Results of Indiana's career and college information survey of students in grades 9 and 11
The global state of higher education and the rise of private finance
The Breakthrough High School project
Retooling career and technical education
The study of economic, informational, and cultural barriers to community college student transfer access at selective institutions: National estimates of transfer access and baccalaureate degree attainment at four-year colleges and universities
College readiness: Helping all students access and succeed in higher education
The national articulation and transfer network
The path to prosperity: A policy of investment
Student charges and financial aid: 2006-07
Preliminary report on No Child Left Behind in Indiana country
Transitioning adults to college: Adult basic education program models
A noble opportunity: Leading education change through a P-16 accountability model
What works for Latino students
Making accountability work: Community colleges and statewide higher education accountability systems
National Indian education study part I: The performance of American Indian and Alaska Native fourth- and eighth-grade students on NAEP 2005 reading and mathematics assessments
The progress of education reform: Dual enrollment
States that raise their high school graduation rates could generate millions more in higher wages
Liberal education outcomes: A preliminary report on student achievement in college
Waiting for Sputnik: Basic research and strategic competition
All students college-ready: Findings from the Foundation's education work, 2000-2006
Access to college: The role of tuition, financial aid, scholastic preparation and college supply in public college enrollments
The impact of diversity on college students: The latest research
The knowledge we need about race and racism
Role models for engagement
Squeeze play: How parents and the public look at higher education today
A report on the status of Hispanics in education: Overcoming a history of neglect
Using EPAS™ to evaluate school-based intervention programs: GEAR UP
Using PLAN to identify student readiness for advanced courses in high school
Action plan: Business/Community leaders
Preparing Oklahoma students for the future