Bring Data: A New Role for Information Technology after the Spellings Commission

Autor/in	Green, Kenneth C.
Titel	Bring Data: A New Role for Information Technology after the Spellings Commission
Quelle	In: EDUCAUSE Review, 41 (2006) 6, S.30-32 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1527-6619
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Higher Education; Access to Education; Educational Assessment; Accountability; Paying for College; Lifelong Learning; Information Technology; Institutional Evaluation; Leadership; Futures (of Society); Public Policy; Undergraduate Students; Student Financial Aid; Educational Policy; Attendance; Costs; Productivity; Documentation; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Verantwortung; Studienfinanzierung; Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Informationstechnologie; Führung; Führungsposition; Future; Society; Zukunft; Öffentliche Ordnung; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Studienförderung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Anwesenheit; Cost; Kosten; Produktivität; Dokumentation; USA
Abstract	In this article, the author discusses the final report from the Education Secretary's Commission on the Future of Higher Education--officially released on September 19 under the title "A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education." The report has its fair share of advocates and antagonists. But as with the NCLB legislation, one fact is indisputable: the Spellings Commission report sends a strong message that the Bush administration is serious about assessment and accountability in higher education. The report makes some modest, yet critical, references to the role of information technology (IT) in U.S. colleges and universities. Many readers may find the key critiques and accompanying recommendations strikingly familiar--"A Test of Leadership" is really more a compilation of continuing criticisms than a bold, breakthrough document that charts a new path for U.S. colleges and universities and for public policy in American higher education. However, academic IT officers should still pay attention to the report's clear demand for documentation of the productivity returns from investments in IT. The growing--indeed, pressing--need for hard data about institutional performance and outcomes leads directly to an emerging function for IT in today's colleges and universities: assessment. College and university IT leaders need to bring their IT resources and expertise to the critical planning and policy discussions about institutional assessment and outcomes that affect all sectors of U.S. higher education. (Contains 1 figure and 16 notes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10