Higher Education Outcomes at the National Level on the Example of the Project "Collegiate Learning Assessment"

• Main Authors: Sabelnikova E. V. (Author), Khmeleva N. L. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, 2015-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.
• Notes: 10.17759/pse.2015200202; 1814-2052; 2311-7273
• Keywords: learning outcomes; higher education; meta-subjective skills; students; testing; measurement; assessment of learning outcomes in higher education; meta-skills; Education; L
• Source: Психологическая наука и образование, Vol 20, Iss 2, Pp 16-23 (2015)

We discuss the interpretation of the concept of "learning outcomes". Theoretical analysis widely represents the interpretations of the learning outcomes of a high school student: academic skills: understanding, application of knowledge to solve problems, synthesis, analysis and evaluation; basic skills and basic knowledge, and skills of a higher order and advanced knowledge; skills of a higher order represented as a system of critical thinking, analytic reasoning, problem solving and written communication; wide abilities interpreted as verbal, quantitative and spatial thinking, understanding, problem solving and decision making. We conclude that each considered approach distinguishes meta-subjective skills, </P><P>i.e. skills to interact with the quality of information regardless of the context. The ability to measure the meta-skills is discussed on an example of the "Collegiate learning assessment", realized in the United States