Outcomes, Testing, Learning. What's at Stake?

• Autores: Peter Brooks
• Localización: Social research: An international quarterly of the social sciences, ISSN 0037-783X, Nº. 3, 2012 (Ejemplar dedicado a: The future of higher education), págs. 601-611
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The perception of a crisis in American higher education�proclaimed by numerous books�has led to a call for "outcomes testing," testing of the "value added" by a student's college education. After discussing some examples of such testing (as recommended originally by the 2006 Spellings Commission Report), I ask whether we really want to take such an exclusively instrumental view of knowledge and its uses. The humanities, I believe, do and should promote another kind of knowing that I refer to under the rubric, "the ethics of reading."