Assessment of Learning Outcomes in Higher Education

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This book offers a comprehensive overview of current, innovative approaches to assessing generic and domain-specific learning outcomes in higher education at both national and international levels. It discusses the most significant initiatives over the past decade to develop objective, valid, and reliable assessment tools and presents state-of-the-art procedures to adapt and validate them for use in other countries. The authors highlight key conceptual and methodological challenges connected with intra-national and cross-national assessment of learning outcomes in higher education; introduce novel approaches to improving assessment, evaluation, testing, and measurement practices; and offer exemplary implementation frameworks. Further, they examine the results of and lessons learned from various recent, world-renowned research programs and feasibility studies, and present results from their own studies to provide new insights into how to draw valid conclusions about learning outcomes achieved in various contexts. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Research and Governance Architectures to Develop the Field of Learning Outcomes Assessment (Hamish Coates)....Pages 3-17 Documenting and Improving Collegiate Learning in the USA (Timothy Reese Cain, James C. Hearn)....Pages 19-41 Information Management Versus Knowledge Building: Implications for Learning and Assessment in Higher Education (Patricia A. Alexander)....Pages 43-56 Front Matter ....Pages 57-57 Challenges for Evaluation in Higher Education: Entrance Examinations and Beyond: The Sample Case of Medical Education (Christiane Spiel, Barbara Schober)....Pages 59-71 Teachers’ Judgments and Decision-Making: Studies Concerning the Transition from Primary to Secondary Education and Their Implications for Teacher Education (Sabine Krolak-Schwerdt, Ineke M. Pit-ten Cate, Thomas Hörstermann)....Pages 73-101 Threshold Concepts for Modeling and Assessing Higher Education Students’ Understanding and Learning in Economics (Sebastian Brückner, Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia)....Pages 103-121 Rescue an Enterprise from Failure: An Innovative Assessment Tool for Simulated Performance (Fritz Oser, Susan Mueller, Tanja Obex, Thierry Volery, Richard J. Shavelson)....Pages 123-144 Assessment of Economic Education in Korea’s Higher Education (Jinsoo Hahn, Kyungho Jang, Jongsung Kim)....Pages 145-168 What Do We Know – What Should We Know? Measuring and Comparing Achievements of Learning in European Higher Education: Initiating the New CALOHEE Approach (Robert Wagenaar)....Pages 169-189 Front Matter ....Pages 191-191 International Performance Assessment of Learning in Higher Education (iPAL): Research and Development (Richard J. Shavelson, Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Julián P. Mariño)....Pages 193-214 International Comparison of a Performance-Based Assessment in Higher Education (Doris Zahner, Alberto Ciolfi)....Pages 215-244 Adapting and Validating the Collegiate Learning Assessment to Measure Generic Academic Skills of Students in Germany: Implications for International Assessment Studies in Higher Education (Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Miriam Toepper, Dimitri Molerov, Ramona Buske, Sebastian Brückner, Hans Anand Pant et al.)....Pages 245-266 Validating the Use of Translated and Adapted HEIghten® Quantitative Literacy Test in Russia (Lin Gu, Ou Lydia Liu, Jun Xu, Elena Kardonova, Igor Chirikov, Guirong Li et al.)....Pages 267-284 Comparative Study of Student Learning and Experiences of Japanese and South Korean Students (Reiko Yamada)....Pages 285-308