
Educational Assessment and the Crisis in Higher Education
Imagine an educational program that takes 4 or more years of full-time effort, costs four times the typical annual salary of its graduates, has a 44 percent dropout rate[1], and produces graduates who often lack the higher-order skills that are essential for organizational success.[2] Would you sign up? Perhaps you already have, because in the U.S. we call this educational program “college.” As described above, this “college” thing does not sound very enticing. Who would say