This book provides university teachers, leaders and policymakers with insights on current works on assessing students’ learning outcomes around the world. It is founded in research, shaped by policy and designed to be of enduring relevance to practice. Framed by a cycle of quality improvement, it discusses policy contexts and research concepts.

Contents: Hamish Coates/Marian Mahat: Advancing student learning outcomes – Reiko Yamada: Comparative analysis of learning outcomes assessment policy contexts – Lin Martin: Assessing student learning outcomes: Research trajectories – Daniel Edwards/Jacob Pearce: Outcomes assessment in practice: Reflections on two Australian implementations – Mary Catharine Lennon/Brian Frank: Decentralised learning outcomes assessments: Developments in Ontario, Canada – Huanhuan Xia/Binglin Zhong: Student learning outcomes assessment in China: Primitive foundations – Sylvie Wald/Hesham W. Gomma: Developing learning outcomes initiatives in Egypt, Kuwait, and the UAE – Jani Ursin: Learning outcomes in Finnish higher education from the perspective of comprehensive curriculum framework – Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia/Manuel Förster/Sebastian Brückner/Roland Happ: Insights from a German assessment of business and economics competence – Victor Borden/Shawn Peters: Faculty engagement in learning outcomes assessments – Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia/Christiane Kuhn/Miriam Toepper: Modelling and assessing higher education learning outcomes in Germany – Bjørn Stensaker/Rachel Sweetman: Impact of assessment initiatives on quality assurance – Marian Mahat/Leo Goedegebuure: Transparent reporting of learning outcomes – Chi Baik/Richard James: Seven strategic areas for advancing the assessment of learning in higher education – Hamish Coates/Mary Catharine Lennon: Propelling the field: Insights, trends and prospects.