Decline and fall and the “prepositional subject”

Would the AI write a dangler prepositional subject this bad? (hat tip: gasstationwithoutpumps) I’m thinking no.

By applying the rubric to last year’s senior theses enables you to evaluate both the rubric and your results to help fine-tune the assessment of this year’s theses.

Full passage:

Every six years, the accountability police swoop down on my campus in the form of WASC, the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. The West Coast accreditation organization comes to Scripps, as it comes to all colleges in our region, to do our reaccreditation. The process used to take a couple of months. . . .

. . . Now that the reaccreditation process has become snarled in proliferating state and federal demands, it’s morphed from a wasp into Godzilla, a much bigger deal — more meetings, reports, interim reports, committees sprouting like mold on a basement wall. . . . 

All of this is perceived to be so complicated that a Director of Assessments and Institutional Research is hired. Yes, there are such things — it’s a burgeoning industry. It’s where the jobs in academe are . . . . 

When I came to Scripps, there were a dozen or so administrative offices whose functions I understood, and whose staff I knew by name, who genuinely facilitated the work of the college. But nationwide, between 1993 and 2009, administrative positions increased by 60 percent, 10 times the rate of tenured faculty. . . . 

We are required to work up an “assessment plan and logic model.” . . . 

There are worksheets with boxes for comments, results, and “action summaries.” A section for “additional design-tools” provides extra space for “entries of design methods.” Then there’s a “results/actions” section in which to recap each SLO, design method, selected student work, and measurement tool in the “logic model worksheet tab.” . . . 

Then the boxes with “comments, results, and summaries” are to be incorporated into an Educational Effectiveness Review Report. “By applying the rubric to last year’s senior theses enables you to evaluate both the rubric and your results to help fine-tune the assessment of this year’s theses.” (That sentence is why some of us still care about dangling participles.) 

The Terrible Tedium of Learning Outcomes by Gayle Green – 1/4/2023 – Chronicle of Higher Education

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