Lessons Learned in Assessing International Learning
In fall 2004, ACE received a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement
of Postsecondary Education to advance the assessment of
international learning with the long-term goal of improving student
international learning at U.S. higher education institutions. The
project group comprised six institutions that were selected from the Internationalization
Collaborative, an invitational forum of 85 ACE member
institutions through which community colleges, liberal arts colleges,
comprehensive, and research universities come together to share their
practices and advance the national dialogue around
internationalization.
Project Institutions:
(Review Selection
Criteria)
In a previous FIPSE-funded preparatory project (2003), the six
institutions:
- Developed a common set of international learning goals to be
assessed across all six institutions.
- Chose assessment methods to be used in a coordinated trial to assess
these goals at all six institutions.
- Outlined the plan for a three-year project to assess selected
outcomes and evaluate the usefulness of the chosen methods across
campuses and institutional types.
Three-Year Project (2004–2007):
The goals of the three-year project were to increase knowledge of
international learning assessment at the six project sites, develop
skills in implementing assessment and using assessment results, and
enhance the knowledge and tools available to the higher education
community for assessing international learning. This was accomplished
through:
- Translating the agreed-upon international learning outcomes into
measurable performance indicators and rubrics.
- Conducting a coordinated effort to assess student achievement of
these international learning outcomes.
- Generating plans to improve student international learning at
project institutions.
- Disseminating lessons learned to the larger higher education
community through workshops and a web-based resource.
A comprehensive web-based resource on assessing
international learning was developed as a part of this project. Access
the Guide
to Assessing International Learning.
This working group was sponsored in part by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education
(FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education. For information on other U.S.
Department of Education programs, please visit http://www.ed.gov/. For
more information about the Lessons Learned in Assessing International
Learning project, please contact:
E-mail: jill_wisniewski@ace.nche.edu
Phone: (202) 939-9553
Fax (202) 785-8056
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This page last updated on: 09/03/2008
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