2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Study on Academic Degree System on the Base of Evaluation of Competences
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23653242
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Educaion
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
NATSUME Tatsuya 名古屋大学, 高等教育研究センター, 教授 (10281859)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
CHIKADA Masahiro 名古屋大学, 高等教育研究センター, 准教授 (80281062)
NAKAI Toshiki 名古屋大学, 高等教育研究センター, 准教授 (30303598)
KATO Kaori 新潟大学, 大学教育機能開発センター, 准教授 (80323997)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 学位制度 / 従前学習評価 / コンピテンス / インフォーマル教育 / 継続高等教育 / 成人学習 / ノンフォーマル教育 / コンピテンス |
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| Research Abstract |
This study investigates special academic degree systems that exempt students from academic coursework in higher education. It compares the systems in the European countries to examine the processes and problems that their systems entail within higher education. Competence-based academic degree systems are based on the accreditation of prior learning, APL, which assesses students' competences. This study clarifies the actual situation and certain APL features in the countries. We identified the following APL-related points: APL places greater importance on learning outcomes than on the application to Higher Education Institutes, HEI, as assessment factors for exemption from coursework. APL creates certain crucial problems for IHEs, such as the determination of equivalence between the experiential knowledge and skills that people acquire in daily lives and the academic skills that IHEs offer. EU, OECD, and UNESCO have policies that promote APL in their member countries.
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Research Products
(3 results)
