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Making The Most Of College Outline Purpose of the assessment project Purpose of this book The advantages of interviews Do those findings in the book generalized 7 lessons about assessment Plan of the book 9 findings the author learns from students Purpose of the Assessment Project The president of Harvard University, Derek Bok, invited the author to start a long-term program of research and assessment They began as a group of 65 people representing 25 different colleges and universities. Purpose of the Assessment Project “Assessment” might connote a focus on asking “how much do students know?” Their goal was and is to explore innovation in teaching, in curriculum, and in advising. They work to understand the effectiveness of each innovation. Purpose of the Assessment Project Under what conditions students learn best, both inside and outside of classrooms. Slow but steady improvement in instruction and advising can make college ever more effective. Purpose of the Assessment Project “How will this project help professors, advisors, staff members, or students to do their work better?” Faculty members do the main work of exploring innovations in curriculum and teaching and then trying them out. Purpose of the Assessment Project They help to shape instruments for interviewing other students, and after careful training they do interviews. Under faculty supervision; they do much of the core synthesis and analysis of data. Purpose of the Book “What can I tell these young people at the beginning that will help them make the most of their time in college?” “What can an individual student do, and what can any college do, to improve the chances that on graduation day that students will say, “I really got what I came here for”? Purpose of the Book The author attended a gathering How other universities were working to help their undergraduates succeed. How campus leaders were trying to improve teaching and the overall quality of student life. Purp