Associate Online Degree Programs | Should colleges do a better job of reporting?
As a follow-up to my last post, the US Department of Education has suggested that colleges start collecting and reporting data on student improvement at their schools.
What’s interesting is that there are already tools out there that colleges can (and many do) already use to do this data gathering.
For example, the National Survey of Student Engagement is a collection of data for both 4 year and 2 year schools that measure the time and effort seniors and freshmen say they put into various educational activities.
And as I mentions, many colleges are already using these tools. The problem is, they are not reporting the data to the public, or they’re making it very difficult to find on their websites. And of course, there is no way right now to link any of this data together so that you can compare the data across many colleges.
So that’s why the Department of Education is proposing that the Federal Governement provide matching funds for colleges and states that publicly report this data. And they have the dream of linking all this data to one main website - theirs.
So that’s the crux of the issue with the USDE’s recommendations. How much is the Goverment willing to get involved in the collection and reporting of how well students are doing (like the No Child Left Behind act is forcing primary schools to do) and how willing are the colleges and universities in the US to do so.
Ben
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