Comparative Study of Cognitive and Affective Development of College Students through the Continuous Large Scale Data

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Our research group has developed the student surveys systems for learning improvement, so called JCIRP (Japanese Cooperative Institutional Research Program) since 2004. Our program consists of three student surveys such as Japanese Freshman Survey, Japanese College Student Survey, and Japanese Junior College Student Survey. Until 2014, approximate 140,000 students from more than 866 four-year colleges and two-year colleges participated in our program. It seems that our student survey system has institutionalized the culture to assess student learning outcome based on the self-reported data and has been widely accepted in Japanese higher education institutions as the indirect assessment system. This study has tackled with the development of student survey systems in Japan, what problems are to be focused in terms of assessment of learning outcome and what we have to do in the next stage for the development of our survey system. Also, our study developed the data base for the JCIRP which participating institutions can utilize for their student assessment.