This book offers a comprehensive overview of current innovative approaches to assessing
generic and domain-specific learning outcomes in higher education at both national and
international levels. It discusses the most significant initiatives over the past decade to
develop objective valid and reliable assessment tools and presents state-of-the-art
procedures to adapt and validate them for use in other countries. The authors highlight key
conceptual and methodological challenges connected with intra-national and cross-national
assessment of learning outcomes in higher education introduce novel approaches to improving
assessment evaluation testing and measurement practices and offer exemplary implementation
frameworks. Further they examine the results of and lessons learned from various recent
world-renowned research programs and feasibility studies and present results from their own
studies to provide new insights into how to draw valid conclusions about learning outcomes
achieved in various contexts.
