Overview
- Offers a wide range of national and international perspectives on assessment in higher education, which appeal to education scholars, social scientists, and policy-makers alike
- Includes contributions from leading international scholars at the forefront of the field
- Provides innovative insights into how to reach valid conclusions on learning outcomes from an international comparative perspective
Part of the book series: Methodology of Educational Measurement and Assessment (MEMA)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Conceptual Development and Advances
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Front Matter
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Domain-Specific Student Learning Outcomes – National and International Perspectives
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Generic Student Learning Outcomes – Cross-National Comparative Approaches
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Keywords
- Diversification of higher education
- Internationalization in higher education
- International benchmarking of standards
- International assessment projects
- Measuring and assessing students’ competencies
- Student learning outcomes
- Cross-national comparisons
- Measurement in higher education
- Cross-national assessments
- National assessment practices
- Cross-national comparative assessments
- Performance assessments
- Domain-specific competencies
- Critical thinking
- Quantitative literacy
About this book
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 outcomesachieved in various contexts.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Assessment of Learning Outcomes in Higher Education
Book Subtitle: Cross-National Comparisons and Perspectives
Editors: Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Miriam Toepper, Hans Anand Pant, Corinna Lautenbach, Christiane Kuhn
Series Title: Methodology of Educational Measurement and Assessment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74338-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74337-0Published: 06 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08967-2Published: 15 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74338-7Published: 22 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2367-170X
Series E-ISSN: 2367-1718
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 308
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, International and Comparative Education, Higher Education, Educational Psychology