Improving the Quality of Education & Curricular Coherence

September 25, 2017

Recent blog posts from Derek Bok  and Loni Bordoloi Pazich, via Inside Higher Ed, bring to mind many issues related to the quality and coherence of undergraduate education. Some questions for thought:

• Do we explicitly tell our students the larger aims of our courses and why they should matter?
• If it is the responsibility of the faculty to create and sustain a cohesive curriculum, how are we doing? What can we do to have a better sense of a unified curriculum – both in theory and in practice?
• Do the formative and summative assessments in our classes test students on what we most want them to know and do?
• Does the feedback we provide our students give them a sense of their progress and how to continue to improve?