How to analyze and utilize the data for improvement of university education

Abstract

　As educational reform in higher education has been preceded these years in Japan, improvement of the education based on concrete data derived from objective measurement besides GPA or Graduate papers has become a very important issue. This paper overviews why such measurement / assessment is required, as well as how to use the data to improve undergraduate education in curriculum level and a course level, using actual data from Benesse’s assessment product series.