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College Accountability Movement Moves Online

One by one, coalitions of colleges of different sorts and stripes have wrestled with the best way to respond to the intensifying public pressure to prove their value and their effectiveness in educating students. Proposals have come from state colleges and universities, major research institutions and private colleges — and not surprisingly, each has been tailored to the specific goals of the proponents.
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The latest entrant in what might be called the accountability sweepstakes comes from an entirely new set of institutions — a small group of colleges (some for-profit, some nonprofit, but all regionally accredited) that operate online and focus primarily on educating adults. And as with its predecessors, Transparency by Design, as the plan is called, has distinctive characteristics that reflect the colleges distinctive missions.

Like the accountability proposals put forward by other groups of institutions, the plan crafted by these colleges provides some data that can be compared across institutions, including scores on the National Survey of Student Engagement and the performance of students in general education courses, as measured by the Educational Testing Services Measurement of Academic Proficiency and Progress.

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