An emerging scholarship: a brief history of assessment

This chapter offers a brief historical and analytical review of the assessment movement from approximately 1985 to date. It first examines some major events and forces influencing assessment’s evolution as a “scholarship,” including demands for curricular and pedagogical reform, shifting patterns of accountability, and changes in instructional delivery. It also examines significant scholarly themes and issues that have arisen in assessment’s short history in such realms as epistemology, methodology, politics, and the use of information. The chapter concludes that assessment scholarship has become rich, robust, and strong. Whether it can or should continue as a distinct conversation outside the mainstream of higher education is more debatable.

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