JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION THEORY AND PRACTICE

Title: College Academic Performance and External Assessment: Has the Relationship Changed?

Author(s): Frederick Tannery, Sunita Mondal

Citation: Frederick Tannery, Sunita Mondal,(2017)"Title: College Academic Performance and External Assessment: Has the Relationship Changed?," Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, Vol. 17, Iss. 2, pp. 36-53

Article Type: Research paper

Publisher: North American Business Press

Abstract:

Growing political pressure from state governments along with strong endorsement of accrediting organizations has led many colleges and universities to adopt formal assessment programs. These programs include internal and external instruments; former including measures generated by the institution, latter a test administered by an outside organization. This research compares internal and external assessments at one institution and how they have changed over time. We find reasonable close relationship between internal and external assessments in the early years of this period became weaker in the later years. Widening gap between the internal and external assessment outcomes comes is due to a growing difference in how student characteristics affect each assessment outcome.