Outcomes Assessment

Over the past decade, mounting demands on educators for accountability have increased interest in the assessment of student learning.  Institutions at all educational levels now are often required to prove to legislatures that students are indeed learning what educators claim they are teaching.    This trend is gaining momentum-demands for assessment are here, and are not expected to abate any time soon.

Although assessment is becoming a mandate for many universities in general, and schools of business in particular, there are other reasons to embrace it.  Just as excellent businesses must carefully measure the quality of their outputs, so should excellent business schools.  Our "output" is not teaching; it is, in fact, student learning.  Thus, assessment programs need to shift their focus from "what we teach" to "what they have learned." 

(Source: www.aacsb.edu)