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Erik Gilbert

Professor

Erik Gilbert is a professor of history at Arkansas State University. He blogs at badassessment.org.

Stories by This Author

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The Review
College Finances Are Being Eaten From the Inside
By Erik Gilbert November 4, 2021
How online-course contractors exploit vulnerable institutions.
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The Review
A Reason to Be Skeptical of ‘College for All’
By Erik Gilbert November 20, 2020
Academic champions of such plans will benefit from them. But will students?
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The Review
How Ed Schools Became a Bastion of Bad Ideas
By Erik Gilbert November 7, 2019
A tale of assessment, learning styles, and other notorious concepts.
The Assessment Industry Is an Enormous Waste of Time 1
The Review
Assessment Is an Enormous Waste of Time
By Erik Gilbert March 20, 2019
The armies of consultants, software vendors, journals, foundations, institutes, and organizations are operating on a false premise.
An Insider’s Take on Assessment: It May Be Worse Than You Thought 1
The Review
An Insider’s Take on Assessment: It May Be Worse Than You Thought
By Erik Gilbert January 12, 2018
A recent journal report says that measuring learning outcomes is not working — and that this is no surprise to assessors.
How Dual Enrollment Contributes to Inequality 1
The Review
How Dual Enrollment Contributes to Inequality
By Erik Gilbert November 5, 2017
The wildly popular program lets high-school students earn college credits cheaply and easily. But it’s not available to all students equally.
A protest last fall at the U. of Texas at Austin.
Commentary
Stop Worrying About Guns in the Classroom. They’re Already Here.
By Erik Gilbert March 17, 2016
People who fear the prospect of legal, concealed weapons on campuses are being just as irrational as those who refuse to leave the house unarmed.
Does Assessment Make Colleges Better? Who Knows? 1
The Review
Does Assessment Make Colleges Better? Who Knows?
By Erik Gilbert August 14, 2015
Accreditors who are driving the push toward measuring outcomes need to provide evidence that it offers benefits commensurate with the expense that goes into it.