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Inside Higher Ed - Opinion Piece

August 23, 2012

We actually know a lot about how student learning and development happens – it’s just that student learning doesn’t work like an assembly line. Instead, student learning is like a budding organism that depends on the conduciveness of its environment; a condition that emerges through the interaction between the learner and the learning context. The primary role of institutional research and assessment is to help us figure out the very best ways to cultivate – and in just the right ways – manipulate this process.

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