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Outcomes, Testing, Learning: What’s at Stake?
- Social Research: An International Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 79, Number 3, Fall 2012
- pp. 601-611
- 10.1353/sor.2012.0011
- Article
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The perception of a crisis in American higher education--proclaimed by numerous books--has led to a call for "outcomes testing," testing of the "value added" by a student's college education. After discussing some examples of such testing (as recommended originally by the 2006 Spellings Commission Report), I ask whether we really want to take such an exclusively instrumental view of knowledge and its uses. The humanities, I believe, do and should promote another kind of knowing that I refer to under the rubric, "the ethics of reading."