A Study on Learning Outcomes and the Means of Assessment of Them in Higher Education

随着高等教育的扩大和经济文化全球化的推进，包括日本在内的许多国家对高等教育的质量越来越感兴趣。特别是在知识经济时代，政府和行业都非常重视毕业生的素质。换句话说，他们关心的是毕业生在毕业后的理解、能力和价值。由于政策对学习成果及其评估的关注，许多国家都引入了基于成果的高等教育改革。

As higher education has expanded and economic and cultural globalization have advanced, many countries including Japan have been increasingly interested in the quality of higher education. Especially in the age of the knowledge economy the governments and the industry have much paid attention to the quality of the graduates. In other words, they are concerned with what graduates understand, are able to do and value upon the graduation. As the result of policy concern with learning outcomes and assessment of them, the outcome-based higher education reform is introduced in many countries.