Two 90-minute recordings of live online seminars available in CD or transcript format. Includes program handouts.

includes video of the presenter from the live program

By hearing these seminars, you will:
• Gain a clearer understanding of what assessment truly is and really can do
• Separate accountability myths from facts
• Learn where to turn for assessment data and resources
• Be able to put today’s calls for accountability, including recommendations from the Spellings Commission on the Future of Higher Education, into a broader context
• Get a clear, current picture of student mobility
• Receive timely national data on student enrollment and attainment patterns
• Learn how we can work together to improve our data-gathering and student tracking efforts
• Be better prepared to discuss your institution’s enrollment, assessment and graduation challenges with your peers, your campus, and the public
• Have the chance to ask questions of a longtime national expert on institutional assessment and student enrollment and attainment

Meet the presenter:
Dr. Clifford Adelman is a senior associate with the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP). Having taught and served as a college academic administrator, he came to the U.S. Department of Education on a one-year fellowship in 1979, was asked to stay, and remained until 2006. During this time, he conducted studies of assessment and testing in the late 1980s, then learned some statistics and programming, and took on the task of editing and analyzing the major national longitudinal studies databases.

His recent published articles have addressed the “propaganda of numbers” in reports on the status of higher education, what we can learn from the current reconstruction of higher education in Europe known as the Bologna Process, and better measures of college student learning than standardized testing. With Lumina Foundation support, he is currently directing IHEP’s “global performance” project to produce assessments of what the U.S. can learn from the efforts of the Europeans engaged in the Bologna Process, and the quality and configuration of international data on participation and attainment in higher education. He received the Association for the Study of Higher Education’s Special Merit award in 2001 and the Association for Institutional Research’s Suslow award in 2005.