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...Harvard Seminar hopes to address Bok's concerns about Harvard's ability to criticize and evaluate itself...
...order to evaluate teaching and extracurricular programs the Seminar first needs to determine what constitutes a successful outcome, Light says, adding it then must develop tests and other criteria for measuring those definitions of success...
...evaluation tools such as the COMP exam and CIRP surveys have largely dispelled fears that assessment is impractical, educators say. Instead, faculties have become embroiled in a debate over what educational outcomes they should persue through assessment--a topic which may be the most controversial addressed by the Harvard Seminar...
Assessment often encourages colleges to reevaluate their educational goals. As a result, many institutions no longer consider absolute levels of knowledge among graduates as important as intellectual "value-added" by the university, said Light, who was chosen to head the seminar because of his expertise in program evaluation...
Harvard is, if anything, moving in the other direction, Light said. The Core Curriculum--which has been criticized by Bennett as being too and by students as not directed enough--will not be evaluated by the seminar, Light says, but he adds that Harvard must also make many decisions about its educational breadth and goals...