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Assessment of Learning Outcomes in Higher Education

Cross-National Comparisons and Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia

    1. Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

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  2. Miriam Toepper

    1. Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

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  3. Hans Anand Pant

    1. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  4. Corinna Lautenbach

    1. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  5. Christiane Kuhn

    1. Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

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  • 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

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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 outcomesachieved in various contexts. 

 

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  3. Domain-Specific Student Learning Outcomes – National and International Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    2. Challenges for Evaluation in Higher Education: Entrance Examinations and Beyond: The Sample Case of Medical Education

      • Christiane Spiel, Barbara Schober
      Pages 59-71

    3. 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

    4. Threshold Concepts for Modeling and Assessing Higher Education Students’ Understanding and Learning in Economics

      • Sebastian Brückner, Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia
      Pages 103-121

    5. 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

    6. Assessment of Economic Education in Korea’s Higher Education

      • Jinsoo Hahn, Kyungho Jang, Jongsung Kim
      Pages 145-168

    7. 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

  4. Generic Student Learning Outcomes – Cross-National Comparative Approaches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
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    2. International Performance Assessment of Learning in Higher Education (iPAL): Research and Development

      • Richard J. Shavelson, Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Julián P. Mariño
      Pages 193-214

    3. International Comparison of a Performance-Based Assessment in Higher Education

      • Doris Zahner, Alberto Ciolfi
      Pages 215-244

    4. 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

    5. 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

    6. Comparative Study of Student Learning and Experiences of Japanese and South Korean Students

      • Reiko Yamada
      Pages 285-308
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

    Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Miriam Toepper, Christiane Kuhn

  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Hans Anand Pant, Corinna Lautenbach

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

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