Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in Higher Education

Hamish Coates is a Professor of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His research and development focuses on improving quality and productivity. He has initiated and led many successful projects, and was Founding International Director of OECD's Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO).Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia is Chair of Business and Economics Education at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. She has published widely on empirical educational research in vocational and higher education. She is a member of many national and international advisory and editorial boards and serves as an expert consultant to ministries, foundations, and international journals.Hans Anand Pant is a Full Professor and chair of Research Methods in Education at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany. He is also CEO of The German School Academy, an institution for school development and teacher training founded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung. The focus of his work is on educational reform, innovation transfer, educational large-scale assessment, and validity issues in competence testing.