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.

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

Inhalt

1. Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in Higher Education; Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Miriam Toepper, Christiane Kuhn, Hans Anand Pant and Corinna Lautenbach .- PART 1: Conceptual Development and Advances.- PART 2: Domain-Specific Student Learning Outcomes National and International Perspectives.- PART 3: Generic Student Learning Outcomes Cross-National Comparative Approaches.