You are invited to a talk of interest to the COR community…
Professor Richard Arum, School of Education
“Improving Undergraduate Education Measurement: Implications for
Sociology”
Friday, March 11, 12noon-1:15pm
Location: Social Science Plaza B (SSPB) 4250
Also possible to attend via Zoom Meeting ID: 918 2246 4754
https://uci.zoom.us/j/91822464
ABSTRACT: An interdisciplinary research team at UCI has come together to develop and implement a state-of-the-art undergraduate measurement project that integrates unprecedented data on student experiences, trajectories and outcomes. Administrative records, learning management system click-stream data, (weekly) longitudinal survey responses, experiential sampling logs and innovative performance assessments have been collected since Fall 2019. The projects goals and efforts will be described, implications for the field of sociology will be discussed, and preliminary findings on undergraduate education before and during the pandemic and the campus’ move to remote instruction will be presented.
BIO: Richard Arum is professor of education and (by courtesy) sociology, criminology, law and society at the University of California, Irvine. He recently served as dean of the UCI School of Education, chair of the NYU Sociology Department, senior fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and director of the Education Research Program at the Social Science Research Council. He is author of Judging School Discipline; coauthor of Aspiring Adults Adrift and Academically Adrift; as well as coeditor of Improving Quality in American Higher Education: Learning Outcomes and Assessment for the 21st Century, Improving Learning Environments: School Discipline and Student Achievement in Comparative Perspectives and Stratification in Higher Education: A Comparative Study. He received a M.Ed. from Harvard and a Ph.D. in Sociology from U.C., Berkeley.