to play the role of a news reporter who is putting together a major news article regarding the impact a culture of assessment has had on planning and execution for institutions of higher education. write the article. Instead, you are going to be putting together a position paper for your editor regarding this topic. You will, in this context be authoring a paper which simply introduces the topic in scholarly form. You will be talking about the national context and describing how a culture of assessment has evolved and what it means to issues in planning and execution. This paper, which again is to be written as if you are preparing the content for your publisher should contain the following items.
• Component 1: Introduction and overview of the topic area.
• Component 2: A description of the national assessment culture in higher education.
• Component 3: The description of the impacts of assessment culture in higher education.