so, for this and many reasons, new america invited fredrik deboer, who is with us today, to write a whiteer that was released last week about the state of college assessment today, where it is, where it's going, and what it means. and what i think you find from reading the paper, which is both an excellent synthesis of where things are now and really a provocative look at where things can be going, you'll find that there's more out there than people realize. there are actually some very smart people, and we have some of them in the room today to talk about this who have been doing great work over the last decade and even more developing new ways of assessing college student learning. people have become very interested in these assessments. the broader idea of using standardized assessments in learning is one that is actually more familiar to us from the k-12 arena, where it has been and remains very controversial, yet very much a part of the fabric of our k-12 schools. there's a lot of i think trepidation, some of it warranted, some of it not, in higher education about whether or not it's

so, for this and many reasons, new america invited fredrik deboer, who is with us today, to write a white paper that was released last week about the state of college assessment today, where it is, where it's going, and what it means. and what i think you find from reading the paper, which is both an excellent synthesis of where things are now and really a provocative look at where things can be going, you'll find that there's more out there than people realize. there are actually some very smart people, and we have some of them in the room today to talk about this who have been doing great work over the last decade and even more developing new ways of assessing college student learning. people have become very interested in these assessments. the broader idea of using standardized assessments in learning is one that is actually more familiar to us from the k-12 arena, where it has been and remains very controversial, yet very much a part of the fabric of our k-12 schools. there's a lot of i think trepidation, some of it warranted, some of it not, in higher education about whether or not