Adapting and Validating the Collegiate Learning Assessment to Measure Generic Academic Skills of Students in Germany: Implications for International Assessment Studies in Higher Education

2018 ◽  
pp. 245-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia ◽  
Miriam Toepper ◽  
Dimitri Molerov ◽  
Ramona Buske ◽  
Sebastian Brückner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Skills ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
International Assessment ◽  
Collegiate Learning Assessment

Using the Collegiate Learning Assessment to Address the College-to-Career Space

2016 ◽  
pp. 230-260
Author(s):  
Doris Zahner ◽  
Zachary Kornhauser ◽  
Roger W. Benjamin ◽  
Raffaela Wolf ◽  
Jeffrey T. Steedle
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Market Failure ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Career Readiness ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Matching Problem ◽  
Cost Of Education ◽  
Collegiate Learning Assessment

Issues in higher education, such as the rising cost of education, career readiness, and increases in the achievement gap have led to a movement toward accountability in higher education. This chapter addresses the issues related to career readiness by highlighting an assessment tool, the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA), through two case studies. The first examines the college-to-career space by comparing different alternatives for predicting college success as measured by college GPA. The second addresses an identified market failure of highly qualified college graduates being overlooked for employment due to a matching problem. The chapter concludes with a proposal for a solution to this problem, namely a matching system.

Support and Recognition for Workplace Learning

1991 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 201-208
Author(s):  
Lois Lamdin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Workplace Learning ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Prior Learning ◽  
Prior Learning Assessment ◽  
The Usa

In this article, Lois Lamdin reviews current perceptions of ‘employability’ in the USA, the kind and extent of training sponsored by industry, and the difficulties perceived by industry in interacting with higher education in relation to training. She stresses the importance of recognizing the workplace as learning place, discusses the development and benefits of prior learning assessment, and sets out the importance of establishing a national credentialling system for the workforce, taking into account the variety of academic and non-academic ways learning is achieved. Finally, she describes the existing work of the Employee Growth and Development Programs of the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, which demonstrate how business, unions, government, and higher education can work together to help respond to the crucial challenge of training and retraining a national workforce.

scholarly journals Higher Education Outcomes at the National Level on the Example of the Project “Collegiate Learning Assessment”

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.V. Sabelnikova ◽  
N.L. Khmeleva
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
National Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Higher Education Outcomes ◽  
Analytic Reasoning ◽  
Collegiate Learning Assessment

We discuss the interpretation of the concept of “learning outcomes”. Theoretical analysis widely represents the interpretations of the learning outcomes of a high school student: academic skills: understanding, application of knowledge to solve problems, synthesis, analysis and evaluation; basic skills and basic knowledge, and skills of a higher order and advanced knowledge; skills of a higher order represented as a system of critical thinking, analytic reasoning, problem solving and written communication; wide abilities interpreted as verbal, quantitative and spatial thinking, understanding, problem solving and decision making. We conclude that each considered approach distinguishes meta-subjective skills, i.e. skills to interact with the quality of information regardless of the context. The ability to measure the meta-skills is discussed on an example of the “Collegiate learning assessment”, realized in the United States.

scholarly journals Calculating the Future: The Historical Assemblage of Empirical Evidence, Benchmarks & PISA,

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas S. Popkewitz ◽  
Jingying Feng ◽  
Lei Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Educational Change ◽  
Performance Assessments ◽  
Economic Prosperity ◽  
Social Equality ◽  
The Future ◽  
International Assessment

Purpose —Prominent at the intersections of national educational agencies, higher education, and international educational performance assessments are two reform standards: “benchmarks” determining optimal student performance, and “empirical evidence” for determining the quality of reform practices. These two notions are often taken as connecting policy and research to effective changes in many countries. The article examines the historical and cultural principles about educational change and its sciences embedded in these standards through examining OECD's PISA and the McKinsey & Company reports that draw on PISA's data. Findings/Originality/Value —First, the reports express salvation themes associated with modernity; that is, the promise of a better future through governing the present. The promise is to provide nations with data and models to achieve social equality, economic prosperity, and a participatory democracy. Second, the promise of the future is not descriptive of some present reality but to fabricate the universal characteristics about society and individuals. The numbers embody social and psychological categories about a desired unity of all students. Third, the “empirical evidence” of the international assessment entails a particular notion of science and “evidence”; one that paradoxically uses the universals in comparing and creating divisions.

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