It's Time to Assess SLO Assessment

Is there any solid evidence that SLO assessment actually improves student learning? Dean Erik Gilbert argues in his article that no one knows. The real questions are these: does the time, effort, and money spent on SLO assessment yield increments of learning commensurate with the costs? And, does the approach to teaching, learning, and the human soul implied in assessment actually do some harm to teaching and learning? Here are Erik Gilbert's conclusions.