Prashant Loyalka- Assessing and Improving Skills in College (Virtual)
Assessing and Improving Skills in College: China, India, Russia, and the United States
Policymakers and researchers know little about the extent to which students learn academic and higher order thinking skills in college and how skill levels and gains compare across national higher education systems and types of institutions. They also lack generalizable evidence about which factors help students develop skills. The absence of evidence undermines efforts to improve the quality of higher education. As such, the main goals of this research study are to (1) assess and compare levels and gains in academic and higher order thinking skills among college students in multiple countries; (2) examine which factors (institutional, faculty, instructional, peer, student) affect skills. I share findings using nationally representative data on STEM undergraduates that I collected from China, India and Russia (which train about half of the world's STEM undergraduates) and provide occasional comparisons with the United States.
Prashant Loyalka is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Education and a Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. His research focuses on addressing inequalities in the education of youth and on improving the quality of education received by youth in multiple countries including China, India, Russia, and the United States. In the course of addressing educational inequalities, Prashant examines the consequences of tracking, financial and informational constraints, as well as social and psychological factors in highly competitive education systems. His work on educational quality is built around research that assesses and compares student learning in higher education, high school and compulsory schooling. He also conducts large-scale evaluations of educational programs and policies that seek to improve student outcomes.
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