Student learning

I’m in the middle of an intense — which is a good thing! — week long workshop at the Wabash Center in Indiana. Among other things we’ve been talking about the difficult process of discerning student learning. Over and over again people have commented upon the challenges of evaluation and assessment, and wondered about how to learn from the reality that some students will return long after a class is finished, and comment that they learned something, while at the time of the course (particularly in anonymous, year end evaluations) it might have seemed that they did not.

So it is in the context of that discussion that it was fun for me, personally, to be reading this blog post at Luther today; particularly this comment: "Mary Hess, a Luther prof whom I admire and from whom I've learned more than I pretended to in my Ed. I class, posted a link to this back in January. She knows what's up."