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Measuring the Value of a Postsecondary Education |
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A comprehensive study of higher education practices and outcomes.
Measuring the Value of a Postsecondary Education is an insightful collection of essays that respond to current and pressing questions in the field of higher education: What do we mean by "quality" of education? What do courses and programs promise to deliver, and do they succeed? What do we know about improving learning outcomes, and is reform possible?
Comprised of papers presented at a conference of experts convened by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario in 2011, the book begins by evaluating pioneering initiatives in Europe, and follows this with reports on efforts to measure and evaluate learning outcomes. Drawing on over two decades of work by international agencies, governments, and foundations in identifying and evaluating learning outcomes in higher education, Measuring the Value of a Postsecondary Education encourages educational institutions to draw on this evidence in revising course and program offerings.
Bringing together international leaders and innovators in the field, this book is an important analysis of progress in enhancing learning quality and directions for future reform.
Contributors include Jeana Abromeit (Alverno College), Roger Benjamin (Council for Aid to Education), Ken Dryden (Canadian politician), Michael Gallagher (Group of Eight), Virginia Hatchette (Postsecondary Education Quality Assessment Board), Jillian Kinzie (Indiana University), Diane Lalancette (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), Holiday Hart McKiernan (Lumina Foundation), Robert Wagenaar (University of Groningen), and Lorne A. Whitehead (University of British Columbia).
Comprised of papers presented at a conference of experts convened by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario in 2011, the book begins by evaluating pioneering initiatives in Europe, and follows this with reports on efforts to measure and evaluate learning outcomes. Drawing on over two decades of work by international agencies, governments, and foundations in identifying and evaluating learning outcomes in higher education, Measuring the Value of a Postsecondary Education encourages educational institutions to draw on this evidence in revising course and program offerings.
Bringing together international leaders and innovators in the field, this book is an important analysis of progress in enhancing learning quality and directions for future reform.
Contributors include Jeana Abromeit (Alverno College), Roger Benjamin (Council for Aid to Education), Ken Dryden (Canadian politician), Michael Gallagher (Group of Eight), Virginia Hatchette (Postsecondary Education Quality Assessment Board), Jillian Kinzie (Indiana University), Diane Lalancette (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), Holiday Hart McKiernan (Lumina Foundation), Robert Wagenaar (University of Groningen), and Lorne A. Whitehead (University of British Columbia).
Details
Part of the Queen's Policy Studies Series (number 162 in series)
250 Pages, 6 x 9
Queen's Policy Studies Series - School of Policy Studies
ISBN 9781553393252
March 2013
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Ken Norrie is professor of economics at McMaster University.
Mary Catharine Lennon is a PhD candidate in international and higher education theory and policy at the University of Toronto.
Mary Catharine Lennon is a PhD candidate in international and higher education theory and policy at the University of Toronto.
CONTENTS
About the Authors v
Foreword
Harvey P. Weingarten xi
Introduction and Overview
Ken Norrie and Mary Catharine Lennon 1
Section I Redefining Educational Quality
Chapter 1 Modernization of Higher Education Programs in
Europe: Student-Centred and Learning
Outcomes-Based
Robert Wagenaar 19
Chapter 2 Increasing Attainment in the United States: Quality
is about Learning-What Students Know,
Understand and Are Able to Do
Holiday Hart McKiernan 3
Chapter 3 Standards-based Accountability in Higher
Education in Australia
Michael Gallagher 53
Chapter 4 The Value of Learning Outcomes: A Canadian
Perspective
Virginia Hatchette 87
Section II Approaches to Measurement
Chapter 5 Assessing and Improving Student Learning and
Educational Quality
Jillian Kinzie 105
Chapter 6 Teach, Learn, Assess
Roger Benjamin 123
Chapter 7 OECD Assessment of Higher Education Learning
Outcomes (AHELO): Rationale, Challenges and
Initial Insights from the Feasibility Study
Diane Lalancette 141
Section III Bringing About Change
Chapter 8 An Influence Pathway: Leadership to Culture to
Practice to Outcomes
Lorne Whitehead 159
Chapter 9 Gauging Impact: Connecting Student
Assessment-as-Learning with Programs and
Institutional Assessment
Jeana M. Abromeit 169
Invited Address
Chapter 10 Education, Learning, and Measuring the Right
Things
Ken Dryden 191
About the Authors v
Foreword
Harvey P. Weingarten xi
Introduction and Overview
Ken Norrie and Mary Catharine Lennon 1
Section I Redefining Educational Quality
Chapter 1 Modernization of Higher Education Programs in
Europe: Student-Centred and Learning
Outcomes-Based
Robert Wagenaar 19
Chapter 2 Increasing Attainment in the United States: Quality
is about Learning-What Students Know,
Understand and Are Able to Do
Holiday Hart McKiernan 3
Chapter 3 Standards-based Accountability in Higher
Education in Australia
Michael Gallagher 53
Chapter 4 The Value of Learning Outcomes: A Canadian
Perspective
Virginia Hatchette 87
Section II Approaches to Measurement
Chapter 5 Assessing and Improving Student Learning and
Educational Quality
Jillian Kinzie 105
Chapter 6 Teach, Learn, Assess
Roger Benjamin 123
Chapter 7 OECD Assessment of Higher Education Learning
Outcomes (AHELO): Rationale, Challenges and
Initial Insights from the Feasibility Study
Diane Lalancette 141
Section III Bringing About Change
Chapter 8 An Influence Pathway: Leadership to Culture to
Practice to Outcomes
Lorne Whitehead 159
Chapter 9 Gauging Impact: Connecting Student
Assessment-as-Learning with Programs and
Institutional Assessment
Jeana M. Abromeit 169
Invited Address
Chapter 10 Education, Learning, and Measuring the Right
Things
Ken Dryden 191
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