The accountability movement in the 1990s that followed the campus-based assessment movement of the 1980s produced the link between accreditation and student outcomes assessment. Two parallel continuums can be seen: one detailing the cycle of accreditation and the other student outcomes assessment. Now the two continuums have merged.

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Much has been written of accreditation and assessment, yet many college faculty and administrators lack a basic understanding of what they are, how they operate, how they came about, and how they relate.

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