Competency Orientation in Higher Education.- An Overview of Assessment Practices.- Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Germany: The KoKoHos Program.- Demands in Higher Education: Results of the Kohos Projects.- Development Perspectives for Higher Education Research and Practice.- Conclusion and Outlook.

This publication focuses on competency orientation in higher education, illustrating international assessment practices for measuring student learning outcomes. For Germany, the Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education (KoKoHs) research program contributes exemplary approaches, and solutions to current challenges in higher education. KoKoHs models and tests can be used for entrance examination, formative and summative assessment of domain-specific and generic competencies and as a basis for developing new teaching-and-learning tools and formats promoting these competencies.ContentCompetency Orientation in Higher Education • International Assessment Practices • Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Germany (KoKoHs) • Challenges in Higher Education and KoKoHs Results • Development Perspectives for Higher Education Research and PracticeTarget GroupsResearchers, students, and all stakeholders of higher education policy and practiceThe AuthorsProf. Dr. Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia is Chair of Business and Economics Education at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.Prof. Dr. Hans Anand Pant is Chair of Research Methods in Education at Humboldt Universitaet Berlin, Germany.Corinna Lautenbach and Dimitar Molerov are research assistants in the Department of Education Studies at Humboldt Universitaet Berlin.Miriam Toepper and Dr. Sebastian Brückner are research assistants in the Department of Business and Economics Education at Johannes Gutenberg University

Well-structured overview of studies and methods Summary of research results of the KoKoHos program in English Includes project descriptions, study designs and research fields Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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