I’m looking through some of the AAC&U data for LEAP, and I found this interesting tidbit. In the
2008 Peter D. Hart Research poll of business leaders, business leaders emphatically state that they want colleges to apply assessment resources into internships and community-based learning over other alternatives. And it is by a wide margin, too – for non-CEO executives (who are presumably closer to the ground truth of what they need) it actually nabs over 50% of the vote, outstripping both e-portfolios and integrative essay tests:
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While this particular poll data is new to me, the results are not surprising at all – for a long time the business community has been demanding authentic assessment.
And of course educational experts have been recommending authentic assessment as well.
So why aren’t we there yet?
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