Many departments have confronted administrative stress to develop methods to evaluate their instructing and their main applications by measuring the achievement of studying outcomes or targets by their college students.
One query is how to do that in a manner that (a) is sufficiently quantitative but additionally (b) will get at, even when not directly, what we hope college students take away from finding out philosophy, and (c) doesn’t take up an unreasonable period of time.
In his seek for such a way, Brendan O’Sullivan, chair of philosophy at Stonehill School, writes in with a query about one chance—a take a look at:
I train at a small liberal arts/pre-professional school in New England within the philosophy division. There may be extra consideration being paid to our having to evaluate our majors by way of the objectives/targets we have now. I collect this is because of NECHE, our regional accrediting company.
I’m exploring choices. One could be an objective-y take a look at on the historical past of Western philosophy? Does anybody know of such a take a look at? Has anybody developed one? I appear to recollect having heard, manner again in time, that there was a topic take a look at for philosophy. One thing akin to the topic assessments that exist for English or Psychology. Has anybody else heard of that? Know whom I would attain out to to attempt to get a duplicate?
If you realize about such a take a look at, please inform us about it within the feedback. Strategies for alternate technique of evaluation that meet the specified standards are welcome.
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“Assessment and Philosophy Courses”
“Assessment, ‘Rich Knowledge’, and Philosophy“
