Measuring the Value of a Postsecondary Education.

A comprehensive study of higher education practices and outcomes.

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Main Author: Norrie, Ken
Other Authors: Lennon, Mary Catharine
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal : MQUP, 2013
Series:Queen's policy studies.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and Overview / Ken Norrie and Mary Catharine Lennon
  • Section I Redefining Educational Quality. Chapter 1 Modernization of Higher Education Programs in Europe: Student-Centred and Learning Outcomes-Based / Robert Wagenaar
  • Chapter 2 Increasing Attainment in the United States: Quality is about Learning
  • What Students Know, Understand and Are Able to Do / Holiday Hart McKiernan
  • Chapter 3 Standards-based Accountability in Higher Education in Australia / Michael Gallagher
  • Chapter 4 The Value of Learning Outcomes: A Canadian Perspective / Virginia Hatchette
  • Section II Approaches to Measurement. Chapter 5 Assessing and Improving Student Learning and Educational Quality / Jillian Kinzie
  • Chapter 6 Teach, Learn, Assess / Roger Benjamin
  • Chapter 7 OECD Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO): Rationale, Challenges and Initial Insights from the Feasibility Study / Diane Lalancette
  • Section III Bringing About Change. Chapter 8 An Influence Pathway: Leadership to Culture to Practice to Outcomes / Lorne Whitehead
  • Chapter 9 Gauging Impact: Connecting Student Assessment-as-Learning with Programs and Institutional Assessment / Jeana M. Abromeit
  • Invited Address
  • Chapter 10 Education, Learning, and Measuring the Right Things / Ken Dryden.