Finnish Experiences Of OECD’s International Assessment Of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO)
Ursin, J. (2015). Finnish Experiences Of OECD’s International Assessment Of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO). Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 5(3). https://doi.org/10.14413/herj2015.03.03
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© Ursin, 2015. This is an open access article published by Debrecen University Press and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons License.
The aim of this article is to describe the implementation of International Assessment of
Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO) in Finland and to highlight ethical
considerations of large-scale international assessments. The Finnish results of the AHELO
feasibility study show that a fully-fledged project is possible to carry if special attention is
paid to the participation of students in test sessions, if enough time is reserved for the
implementation phase and if scoring of open-ended questions is carefully carried out and
monitored.It is, however, important that large-scale international assessmentssuch as AHELO
do not start to colonialise and converge understandings of what is considered a desirable end
result, promote conceptions of ‘good’ teaching and learning in higher education and hence
become (un)intentionally a powerful political tool to steer and justify national educational
reforms.
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