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What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been: Three Decades of Outcomes Assessment in Higher Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2016

E. Fletcher McClellan
E. Fletcher McClellan*
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Elizabethtown College
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Profession Symposium: Assessment in Political Science Redux
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , January 2016 , pp. 88 - 92
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