"Measuring Task Complexity in College Major Requirements"

Dr. Rachel Baker, Associate Professor in the Policy, Organizations, Leadership, and Systems Division at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, will share an overview of her work leading a group developing measures of curricular complexity in college major requirements. 

Graduating from college requires understanding major curricular requirements and making several complex interdependent choices to fulfill them. Creating universal and broadly applicable measures of complexity gives policy makers and administrators better models for simplification, which could lead to meaningful and effective policy reforms.