Methodological challenges in international comparative post-secondary assessment programs: lessons learned and the road ahead

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العنوان: Methodological challenges in international comparative post-secondary assessment programs: lessons learned and the road ahead
المؤلفون: Doris Zahner, Raffaela Wolf, Roger Benjamin
المصدر: Studies in Higher Education. 40:471-481
بيانات النشر: Informa UK Limited, 2015.
سنة النشر: 2015
مصطلحات موضوعية: Medical education, Test design, Higher education, Recall, business.industry, Factual knowledge, Popularity, Education, Educational research, Pedagogy, Cross-cultural, Adaptation (computer science), business, Psychology
الوصف: The assessment of student learning outcomes in the tertiary school sector has seen an increase in global popularity in recent years. Measurement instruments that target higher order skills are on the rise, whereas assessments that foster the recall of factual knowledge are declining. The Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO) project was designed with the goal of developing a cross-national concept for valid assessment of generic and domain-specific student learning outcomes on an international comparative basis. AHELO and other international comparative assessment systems face numerous methodological challenges that pertain to test design and development, translation, adaptation, student sampling, scoring, reporting, and the validity of score interpretations. The goal of this paper is to generate ideas for the improvement of cross-national research agendas, such as the AHELO project. The main purpose is to focus on the lessons learned from the AHELO feasibility study and other internati...
تدمد: 1470-174X
0307-5079
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::51de49fd8dc09c3c1aff5b8b4791016e
https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2015.1004239
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