Your University President Has Asked You to Oversee an Assessment

question 14

Essay

Your university president has asked you to oversee an assessment of your department or school's classrooms.Describe how you might use baseline studies within the construct of your research,and some of the key variables that you should evaluate.

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Definitions:

Hypocritical

Characterized by behavior that contradicts stated beliefs or feelings, often involving pretense or deception.

Frederick Douglass

An African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman who, after escaping from slavery, became a leader of the abolitionist movement.

Fourth of July

A federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

Gag Rule

Rule adopted by House of Representatives in 1836 prohibiting consideration of abolitionist petitions; opposition, led by former president John Quincy Adams, succeeded in having it repealed in 1844.