Replying to LO25437 --
Hi Vana. Good to hear from you and I'm excited to see that you're
beginning to focus on your dissertation. You asked about what research
we'd like to see re: LOs. Richard Holloway (Doc) responded that he'd like
to see something on the feedback part. I second his opinion! When I did
the case studies on community colleges as LOs, I did not find a single
college, not even the two most known for being "cutting edge" in this
area, that had a viable, systematic means of capturing and feeding
organizational learning back into the institution. The CEOs of these
colleges were quite explicit about it; it was their weak link. Maybe
that's just typical of higher ed, but I doubt it. I don't know how any
organization can really learn without this step -- or let me put it
another way -- I don't know how an organization would KNOW that it had
learned without this loop. I also see this weakness in the evaluation part
of strategic planning. Using that simple P(lanning) - I(mplementation) -
E(valuation) model (PIE), colleges, for example, put a little of their
resources into planning, a lot into implementation, and next to nothing
into evaluation. Ironically, most good instructors do a much better job of
evaluating at the classroom level; it seems to weaken dramatically as the
scope widens. Anyway, that's what I would like to see! H.
Harriett J. Robles
hjrobles@aol.com
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