Assessment is as assessment does...
Funny that this prompt starts with "what gets assessed, gets taught" as we had that exact same phrase uttered at work last week. My professional experience with assessment has not been one that I would characterize as 'positive'. In the twelve years I've been in my School, we've gone from no assessment (outside standard classroom assessments), to three iterations of full-blow program assessment. We started with 39 program learning outcomes which has been distilled down to 4. PLO's went from things like "Students will interpret and evaluate research" to things like "Graduates will be able to describe how communities and individuals interact with/in information ecosystems". Unfortunately, during each of these versions, assessment was seen as an added chore, a requirement of our accrediting body (or in some cases, the University), and something not tied to learning at all. Unfortunately for our program that is accredited, assessment
