Assessment of quantitative reasoning to enhance educational quality

The 2003 AERA theme: Accountability for Educational Quality: Shared Responsibility provides a solid foundation for research on the means by which quality assessment can improce both instructional delivery and student learning. A counterpoint to the prevalent accountability focus is intentionally sought to promote participation by both faculty and students toward assessment methos that can improce teaching and learning. This paper provides a progress report on an effort to enhance assessment of quantitative reasoning with an eye toward greater student engagement and assessment results that might better inform pedagogy.