Assessment of Learning Outcomes in Higher Education: Cross-National Comparisons and Perspectives

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.- 2. Research and Governance Architectures to Develop the Field of Learning Outcomes Assessment; Hamish Coates,- 3. Documenting and Improving Collegiate Learning in the United States; Timothy Reese Cain and James C. Hearn.- 4. Information Management versus Knowledge Building: Implications for Learning and Assessment in Higher Education; Patricia A. Alexander.- PART 2: Domain-Specific Student Learning Outcomes - National and International Perspectives.- 5. Challenges for Evaluation in Higher Education: Entrance Examinations and Beyond - The Sample Case of Medical Education; Christiane Spiel and Barbara Schober.- 6. 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 and Thomas Hörstermann.- 7. Threshold Concepts for Modeling and Assessing Higher Education Students' Understanding and Learning in Economics; Sebastian Brückner and Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia.- 8. Rescue an Enterprise from Failure: A Revolutionary Assessment Tool for Simulated Performance; Fritz Oser, Susan Mueller, Tanja Obex, Thierry Volery & Richard J. Shavelson.- 9. Assessment of Economics Education in Korea's Higher Education; Jinsoo Hahn, Kyungho Jang and Jongsung Kim.- 10. 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 3: Generic Student Learning Outcomes - Cross-National Comparative Approaches.- 11. International Performance Assessment of Learning in Higher Education (iPAL) - Research and Development; Richard J. Shavelson, Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia and Julián P. Mariño.- 12. International Comparison of a Performance-Based Assessment in Higher Education; Doris Zahner and Alberto Ciolfi.- 13. 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.- 14. Validating the Use of Translated and Adapted HEIghten® Quantitative Literacy Test in Russia; Ou Lydia Liu, Lin Gu, Prashant Loyalka, Amy Shaw and Jane Wang.- 15. Comparative Study of Student Learning and Experiences of Japanese and South Korean Students; Reiko Yamada.