Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education : Approaches to Challenges in Higher Education Policy and Practice / by Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Hans Anand Pant, Corinna Lautenbach, Dimitar Molerov, Miriam Toepper, Sebastian Brückner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga, Author.

Pant, Hans Anand, Author.

Lautenbach, Corinna, Author.

Molerov, Dimitar, Author.

Toepper, Miriam, Author.

Brückner, Sebastian, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher.

Educational tests and measurements.

Higher Education.

Assessment and Testing.

Local Subjects:

Higher Education.

Assessment and Testing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 pages) : color illustrations

Edition:

1st ed. 2017.

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS, 2017.

Summary:

This publication focuses on competency orientation in higher education, illustrating international assessment practices for measuring student learning outcomes. For Germany, the Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education (KoKoHs) research program contributes exemplary approaches, and solutions to current challenges in higher education. KoKoHs models and tests can be used for entrance examination, formative and summative assessment of domain-specific and generic competencies and as a basis for developing new teaching-and-learning tools and formats promoting these competencies. Content Competency Orientation in Higher Education • International Assessment Practices • Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Germany (KoKoHs) • Challenges in Higher Education and KoKoHs Results • Development Perspectives for Higher Education Research and Practice Target Groups Researchers, students, and all stakeholders of higher education policy and practice The Authors Prof. Dr. Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia is Chair of Business and Economics Education at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. Prof. Dr. Hans Anand Pant is Chair of Research Methods in Education at Humboldt Universitaet Berlin, Germany. Corinna Lautenbach and Dimitar Molerov are research assistants in the Department of Education Studies at Humboldt Universitaet Berlin. Miriam Toepper and Dr. Sebastian Brückner are research assistants in the Department of Business and Economics Education at Johannes Gutenberg University.

Contents:

Competency Orientation in Higher Education

An Overview of Assessment Practices

Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Germany: The KoKoHos Program

Demands in Higher Education: Results of the Kohos Projects

Development Perspectives for Higher Education Research and Practice

Conclusion and Outlook.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783658154868

3658154861