{"id":35323,"date":"2026-02-25T09:36:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=35323"},"modified":"2026-02-25T09:36:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:36:56","slug":"what-counts-as-success-assessing-the-impact-of-civics-in-higher-ed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=35323","title":{"rendered":"What Counts As Success? Assessing The Impact Of Civics In Higher Ed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On February 18, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research-teams\/alliance-civics-academy\">Alliance for Civics in the Academy<\/a> hosted\u00a0a webinar on &#8220;What Counts as Success? Assessing the Impact of Civics in Higher Ed&#8221;\u00a0with Trygve Throntveit, Rachel Wahl, Joseph Kahne, and\u00a0me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We discussed some of the advantages of developing reliable and consistent measurements of civic education, particularly the opportunity to learn from data and the need to be accountable. We also discussed some drawbacks and risks, including Campbell&#8217;s Law (a remark by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_T._Campbell\">Donald T. Campbell)<\/a>: &#8220;The more any quantitative\u00a0social indicator\u00a0is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We asked ourselves who should use assessments, and for what purposes. For example, it is a different matter for a college professor to get feedback from the students in a course or for a university to measure student outcomes. I thought the conversation was both intellectually serious and relevant to practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Panelists:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Rachel Wahl: Associate Professor in the Social Foundations Program, Department of Educational Leadership, Foundations, and Policy at the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Virginia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Joseph Kahne: Ted and Jo Dutton Presidential Professor for Education Policy and Politics and Director of the Civic Engagement Research Group at the University of California, Riverside.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Trygve Throntveit: PhD, Research Professor in Higher Education and Associate Director of the Center for Economic and Civic Learning (CECL) at Ball State University.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was the moderator. The video is here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What Counts As Success? Assessing The Impact Of Civics In Higher Ed | Hoover Institution\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/54N5vYvKHbg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 18, the Alliance for Civics in the Academy hosted\u00a0a webinar on &#8220;What Counts as Success? Assessing the Impact of Civics in Higher Ed&#8221;\u00a0with Trygve Throntveit, Rachel Wahl, Joseph Kahne, and\u00a0me. 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