LIST OF JARGON ALERTS
In lieu of a traditional glossary, this book has “Jargon Alert!” sidebars sprinkled throughout that explain some of the jargon used in the worlds of higher education, accreditation, and accountability.
- Academic freedom
- Accountability
- Accreditation standards, criteria, and requirements
- Action steps
- Assessment
- Attrition
- Backwards curriculum design
- Balanced scorecards
- Bloom’s taxonomy
- Brightline
- Capstones
- Carnegie classification
- Chief executive officer
- Closing the loop
- Competency-based
- Completion
- Continuous improvement and continuous quality improvement
- Critical thinking
- Curriculum alignment and curriculum maps
- Dashboard indicators
- Dashboards
- Data
- Direct evidence of student learning
- Environmental scan
- Financial ratio analysis ...
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