Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education Approaches to Challenges in Higher Education Policy and Practice /

• Main Authors: Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga (Author), Pant, Hans Anand (Author), Lautenbach, Corinna (Author), Molerov, Dimitar (Author), Toepper, Miriam (Author), Brückner, Sebastian (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS, 2017.
• Subjects: Education.; Assessment.; Higher education.; Higher Education.; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation.

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 so...

Table of 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.