An Important Announcement for AHELO Project Participants

26/4/2012

Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes Project

   The test of the assessment of higher education learning outcomes is held on Thursday 2012 at 12 pm.

How the procedures will be:

    The test will be in the places announced in the schedule No 1 through the internet and who want to know the general regulations of test and how to answer the test through the internet, should download the introductory show.

The Questions patterns:

    The test of economic track evaluation for AHELO consists of items that cover what is expected for the graduates to perfect in the end of program for three or four years. Moreover, it consists of two kinds of questions that are answered automatically:

1)    Multiple-choice options that ask the student to choose one answer from four choices.

2)    Tasks sheet as the students will be asked to answer the questions through the keyboard. Moreover, this sheet will be quoted from an article in a magazine, a case study, a trail result or a chart and many tasks will follow these subjects. In the other wise, the students will be asked to put an explanation for this task, to extract results from it or to apply the general economic knowledge on the condition described in this subject. These tasks will be corrected by gaining specific numbers of points for every task and the scores will be distributed over the tasks through the specified numbers for every task that is different according to the needs, importance and difficulty of this task. Finally, these tasks will be corrected by experts and specialists inside the country by using the evidence of results registration that is put by experts and specialists from all the participating countries.

 

3)     Examples of task sheet: they should present an introductory subject special for the determination of rates of unemployment, inflation, growth in the real result and growth in money supply  through the last previous years:

     The first task: the determination of problem that face the economy in this country.

    The second task: the suggestion of the appropriate monetary policy for the solution of the problem.

    The third task: the determination of impact of short and long term of the prices level, real result,        currency exchange and suggested monetary policy.

 

The tasks degrees are corrected and determined as the following:

One point for the determination of short term impacts of the general prices level of suggested monetary policy.

One point for the determination of long term impacts of the general prices level of suggested monetary policy.

One point for the determination of short term of the real exit of the monetary policy.

One point for the determination of long term impacts of the real exit of the suggested monetary policy.

One point for the determination of short term of currency exchange of the monetary policy.

One point for the determination of long term of country currency for the level of suggested monetary policy rate.

In this example, the students who complete the third mission will pass it to the maximum 6 points.

4)    The degree of task sheet indicates the economic knowledge extent that is required in the students to response to this task. The acceptance of student will be subjected for correction according to the pattern and rules of control, so the students should write obviously to allow the proofreaders to understand the answers. In the other wise, the proofreaders receive an intensive training in correcting these tasks and putting degrees for the students’ responses fairly and consistently as possible.