In my six years at Salem State College, I have heard much anxiety about assessment not only from colleagues in the Department of Biology but also from colleagues further afield in our college. I do not mean to be flippant by using my aversion to dentists as an analogy, but I really do believe that a clear understanding of the assessment of learning objectives will significantly benefit the long-term health of what our students are learning and of our own long-term health as teachers.

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We should be much better informed in this country of the implications and consequences of the Bologna process, and we soon might have to be as the Western Governors University and a Lumina Foundation initiative gather steam. So what is the Bologna process?

The first misconception is that Bologna is an initiative of the European Union. In fact, it is perhaps the most tangible non-legal initiative of the Council of Europe

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