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Graduate capability
Get PDFIs it feasible to produce a generalisable assessment of higher education learning outcomes to demonstrate the capability of graduates? In a word, yes. Hamish Coates explains
Engaging students for success : Australasian Student Engagement Report
Get PDFACER produces AUSSE Institution Reports for participating universities, providing details about the responses from students in their institution and selected benchmark groups. These reports provide a basis for publication and presentation of analyses within higher education communities, at conferences, and in magazines and journals. ACER also produces this Australasian Student Engagement Report (ASER), a series of AUSSE Research Briefings, and a series of AUSSE Enhancement Guides. These public documents are intended to convey general results to wider audiences
Australasian Survey of Student Engagement : institution report
Get PDF‘Student engagement’, defined as students’ involvement with activities and conditions likely to generate high-quality learning, is increasingly understood to be important for higher education quality. The concept provides a practical lens for assessing and responding to the significant dynamics, constraints and opportunities facing higher education institutions. It provides key insights into what students are actually doing, a structure for framing conversations about quality, and a stimulus for guiding new thinking about best practice. This 2008 AUSSE Institution Report provides information for evidence-based conversations about students’ engagement in university education. The AUSSE is conducted by, for and with participating institutions. The intention is to provide institutions with new perspectives for quality management and enhancement. In total, 29 higher education institutions participated in the 2008 AUSSE. This includes 23 from Australia and six from New Zealand – four more than in 2007. In addition, ten institutions participated in the Staff Survey of Student Engagement (SSES)
Group of national experts on the AHELO feasibility study : revised interim feasibility report : 9th meeting of the AHELO GNE, Paris, 19-20 March 2012
No full textThis report presents interim evaluative insights arising from design, development and evaluation of the Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO) Feasibility Study. The report draws together materials from a wide range of sources, and from work that is currently underway. It is designed to provide high level information for the OECD IMHE Governing Board and Education Policy Committee. This report draws heavily on a much longer July Interim Feasibility Report (AHELO Consortium, 2011). The July report incorporated feedback from hundreds of stakeholders, document research and conceptual design, and empirical testing to date. This report took stock of progress at that time, and made formative suggestions for the remainder of the study. This Revised Interim Feasibility Report also references numerous operational documents produced since June 2011
Group of national experts on the AHELO feasibility study : progress report on the economics strand : 6th meeting of the AHELO GNE, Paris, 28-29 March 2011
No full textThis progress report provides an update of work undertaken between September 2010 and February 2011 in Module B of the AHELO Feasibility Study, i.e. to develop a provisional assessment framework and instrument for the Economics strand of work. This document provides background information that will be elaborated with a verbal report at the sixth AHELO GNE meeting being held in Paris on March 28 and 29, 2011. The work for Module B is undertaken by Educational Testing Service (ETS) under a subcontracting arrangement with the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
Attracting, engaging and retaining : new conversations about learning
Get PDF\u27Student engagement\u27, defined as students\u27 involvement with activities and conditions likely to generate high-quality learning, is increasingly understood to be important for higher education quality. This report presents the first insights into students\u27 engagement in higher education in Australasia. [p.vi
Group of national experts on the AHELO feasibility study : progress report on the contextual dimension : 6th meeting of the AHELO GNE, Paris, 28-29 March 2011
No full textThe AHELO Feasibility Study involves carefully integrated work that is designed to maximise efficiency and ensure successful project outcomes. AHELO\u27s context instruments provide essential foundations for the political, practical and technical direction of the study, and integration across all testing strands. This document provides background information that will be elaborated with a verbal report at the sixth AHELO GNE meeting being held in Paris on March 28 and 29, 2011
Group of national experts on the AHELO feasibility study : test administration manual : 8th meeting of the AHELO GNE, Paris, 28-29 November 2011
No full textAssessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO) involves testing tens of thousands of students at hundreds of institutions in many different countries. It is important that testing conditions are as similar as possible in all testing sessions. This ensures that student performance is measured in a comparable way across institutions and countries, and is not influenced by external factors. This Test Administration Manual sets out the rules under which AHELO test administrations are conducted, specifies the preparation and setup of the testing environment, provides instructions on the administration of testing sessions and provides a script for Test Administrators (TAs) to follow while administering the test. This manual is designed to guide and support the activities of TAs before, during and after testing sessions
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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