The German funding initiative “Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education”: 23 research projects on engineering, economics and social sciences, education and generic skills of higher education students

Autoren
Blömeke, Sigrid (Hrsg.); Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Olga (Hrsg.)
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
Zusammenfassung
Assessing competencies of students in higher education has long been a neglected research field. Given the diversity of higher education institutions, programs, objectives and processes as well as the diversity and dynamic of the labor markets’ demands, the challenges of such assessments seemed overwhelming. In order to close this research gap at least partially, the editors of the current working paper developed the funding initiative “Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education (KoKoHs)” in cooperation with the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) which was announced in 2011. Out of more than 100 applications, 23 research projects including more than 70 higher education institutions were selected to examine fundamental research issues concerning the assessment of competencies in higher education. The first funding period lasts from 2012 to 2015; and the projects cover engineering, economics and social sciences, teacher education and generic skills of higher education graduates. They focus on how to model conceptually the respective competencies and how to transfer these theoretical models into measurement models and reliable test instruments. As part of the first funding period, the instruments have to be applied to a sample of higher education students, too, and the test scores obtained have to be validated. As a second step, it is intended to follow up on this research with longitudinal studies modeling the development of competencies during higher education. This working paper presents the theoretical framework of the funding initiative and it documents the research questions, the study designs and the expected results of its 23 research projects.
Verlag
Berlin: Humboldt Universität
Seiten
91
Band
3
Weitere Angaben
KoKoHs Working Papers from the BMBF-funded research initiative „Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education“
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