Dive Summary:
- About 200 colleges and universities are preparing to administer a new standardized test for graduating students, with the results meant to give prospective employers a way to measure graduates' ability across schools.
- The test, Collegiate Learning Assessment Plus (CLA+), has attracted small liberal arts schools as well as some of the California and Texas state university systems.
- Students will be able to report the test results on their resumes and will be able to send copies of the results to potential employers.
From the article:
... Douglas Bennett, a Council for Aid to Education board member and emeritus professor of politics at Earlham College in Indiana, said the test showed promise. "A dirty secret about higher education for a very long while is, we've had no particularly good ways of knowing the most important thing, and that is whether students are learning," he said. "Partly that's been because we didn't have the right, clever ideas to figure out how to do that." ...
