{"id":7262,"date":"2018-02-23T21:14:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T02:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/23\/quantifiable-data-and-outcomes-assessment\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T18:58:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:58:03","slug":"quantifiable-data-and-outcomes-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/quantifiable-data-and-outcomes-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantifiable data and outcomes assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an opinion piece for <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/23\/opinion\/sunday\/colleges-measure-learning-outcomes.html\">The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Molly Worthen, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, writes that more \u201cuniversity administrators want campuswide, quantifiable data that reveal what skills students are learning.\u201d As part of her research, she talked with David Eubanks, Furman\u2019s assistant vice president for assessment and institutional effectiveness. \u201cI think assessment practices are ripe for re-examining,\u201d said Eubanks, who is a member of a Furman research team that generates and uses data to support The Furman Advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an opinion piece for The New York Times, Molly Worthen, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, writes that more \u201cuniversity administrators want campuswide, quantifiable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":7263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,35,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news","category-the-furman-advantage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}