Compararive Study on the New Credit System

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26590210
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology of education
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: Kawashima Tatsuo 大阪大学, 高等教育・入試研究開発センター, 教授 (20177679)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 単位制度 / 質保証 / コンピテンシー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

By the paradigm shift in Higher Ed.from teaching to learning, the quality of education is measured by the learning outcomes rather the learning time, that is Carnegie credit. The Carnegie Foundation studied to explore the alternate credit system, but concluded that Carnegie credit is still effective for administrative purpose.
On the other hand, many universities, mostly on-line institutions, assess directly the competencies for graduation and they do not use the time-based credit system. The Department of Education now allow such universities for accreditation and told them to define the equivalency of competency unit between credit hours by themselves.

Free Research Field

教育社会学