PhotoTo the Editor:Re “No Way to Measure Students,” by Molly Worthen (Sunday Review, Feb. 23), criticizing “a bureaucratic behemoth known as learning outcomes assessment”:Learning assessment in higher education is simply an effort to document that students have indeed learned something. It’s a lot harder than giving out the As, Bs and Cs that have been the traditional measure of student success. As higher education costs climb and student borrowing increases, it should come as no surprise that colleges and universities are under more pressure to demonstrate what students have gained. But the demand that colleges assess learning will not slacken. We do not need administrators to tell us how to measure learning.

Source: New York Times February 26, 2018 21:56 UTC