Assessment of Learning Outcomes in Higher Education

Part I. Conceptual Development and Advances

1. Research and Governance Architectures to Develop the Field of Learning Outcomes Assessment
Hamish Coates

2. Documenting and Improving Collegiate Learning in the USA
Timothy Reese Cain, James C. Hearn

3. Information Management Versus Knowledge Building: Implications for Learning and Assessment in Higher Education
Patricia A. Alexander

Part II. Domain-Specific Student Learning Outcomes – National and International Perspectives

4. Challenges for Evaluation in Higher Education: Entrance Examinations and Beyond: The Sample Case of Medical Education
Christiane Spiel, Barbara Schober

5. 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

6. Threshold Concepts for Modeling and Assessing Higher Education Students’ Understanding and Learning in Economics
Sebastian Brückner, Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia

7. Rescue an Enterprise from Failure: An Innovative Assessment Tool for Simulated Performance
Fritz Oser, Susan Mueller, Tanja Obex, Thierry Volery, Richard J. Shavelson

8. Assessment of Economic Education in Korea’s Higher Education
Jinsoo Hahn, Kyungho Jang, Jongsung Kim

9. 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

Part III. Generic Student Learning Outcomes – Cross-National Comparative Approaches

10. International Performance Assessment of Learning in Higher Education (iPAL): Research and Development
Richard J. Shavelson, Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Julián P. Mariño

11. International Comparison of a Performance-Based Assessment in Higher Education
Doris Zahner, Alberto Ciolfi

12. 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, Sascha Hofmann, Silvia Hansen-Schirra

13. 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, Shangfeng Hu, Ningning Yu, Liping Ma, Fei Guo, Qi Su, Jinghuan Shi, Henry Shi, Prashant Loyalka

14. Comparative Study of Student Learning and Experiences of Japanese and South Korean Students
Reiko Yamada

Avainsanat: Education, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, International and Comparative Education, Higher Education, Educational Psychology