Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in Higher Education (Hardcover)

Introduction. Assessing student learning outcomes in higher education: challenges and international perspectives Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Hans Anand Pant and Hamish Coates 1. Assessing student learning outcomes internationally: insights and frontiers Hamish Coates 2. Assessing critical thinking in higher education: the HEIghten™ approach and preliminary validity evidence Ou Lydia Liu, Liyang Mao, Lois Frankel and Jun Xu 3. On the practices and challenges of measuring higher education value added: the case of Colombia Richard J. Shavelson, Benjamin W. Domingue, Julian P. Marino, Adriana Molina Mantilla, Andres Morales Forero and Edward E. Wiley 4. Assessing scientific reasoning: a comprehensive evaluation of item features that affect item difficulty Jurik Stiller, Stefan Hartmann, Sabrina Mathesius, Philipp Straube, Rudiger Tiemann, Volkhard Nordmeier, Dirk Kruger and Annette Upmeier zu Belzen 5. Comparing future teachers’ beliefs across countries: approximate measurement invariance with Bayesian elastic constraints for local item dependence and differential item functioning Johan Braeken and Sigrid Blomeke 6. Student motivation in low-stakes assessment contexts: an exploratory analysis in engineering mechanics Frank Musekamp and Jacob Pearce 7. Developing instruments to assess and compare the quality of engineering education: the case of China and Russia Elena Kardanova, Prashant Loyalka, Igor Chirikov, Lydia Liu, Guirong Li, Huan Wang, Ekaterina Enchikova, Henry Shi and Natalie Johnson 8. Macroeconomic knowledge of higher education students in Germany and Japan ? a multilevel analysis of contextual and personal effects Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Susanne Schmidt, Sebastian Bruckner, Manuel Forster, Michio Yamaoka and Tadayoshi Asano