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What is Assurance of Learning

Chapter 3
Handbook of Research on E-Assessment in Higher Education
Assurance of learning (AoL) involves a set of AACSB standards that focus primarily on the quality of the curriculum and managing learning outcomes for the continuous improvement of business schools. It encompasses not just assessment but what is involved in the processes and procedures before and after assessment is conducted. AACSB places a great emphasis on the assessment of students learning, stating an important need for the schools to provide “hard evidence” those students are achieving the learning goals that form the basis of the curriculum and its ongoing improvement in liaison with the missions of such schools.
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Assurance of Learning and Accreditations Through Assessment in Business Schools
Mounir Kehal (Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5936-8.ch003
Abstract
The use of web-based technologies in academic institutions for their diverse practices has been widespread in colleges and universities for several decades. These applications include surveying stakeholders, assessing classes, reporting on faculty development, and assurance of learning data to mention a few. Further advances have led to the integration of applications that not only enable the sharing of knowledge, but which also support the reporting requirements necessary to obtain and retain accreditation; likewise satisfy the supply of intellectual capital to the employment marketplace. In this chapter, the authors aim to portray relationship between assurance of learning and assessment at large with real life examples and approaches.
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