Learning gain in higher education

As students are bearing an increasing proportion of the costs of their participation in higher education, increasing attention has been paid nationally and internationally to the issue of what higher education does for its students. What do students gain from engaging in higher education, and how mi...

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Other Authors Hughes, Christina (Editor), Tight, Malcolm (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
SeriesInternational perspectives on higher education research ; v. 14.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781838672812
9781838672799
DOI10.1108/S1479-3628202114
Physical Description1 online resource (192 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Existing research on learning gain in higher education / Malcolm Tight
  • Chapter 2. A critical review of learning gains methods and approaches / Jekaterina Rogaten and Bart Rienties
  • Chapter 3. Assessment of student learning progress in higher education: methodological approaches and results / Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia and Miriam Toepper
  • Chapter 4. Value added in higher education: brief history, measurement, challenges and future direction / Katrina Crotts Roohr, Margarita Olivera-Aguilar and Ou Lydia Liu
  • Chapter 5. Evaluating LEGACY: methodologies for measuring learning gain / Christina Hughes and Heike Behle
  • Chapter 6. The changing role of higher education: from social/societal aspect to employability gains / Shweta Mishra and Edith Braun
  • Chapter 7. Evaluating learning gain as a measure of quality / Camille Kandiko Howson
  • Chapter 8. Higher education for sustainable development: learning gains or learning losses / Kerry Shephard
  • Chapter 9. Pursuing learning gain in Australian universities / Darrell Evans
  • Chapter 10. Measurement of student learning outcomes: Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate institute: a case study / Robin Goldberg and Vicki Chandler.