Presents a practical guide to learning-outcomes assessment in international education for practitioners who are starting to engage with the process. Recognizing that a "one size fits all” approach cannot capture the diversity of goals and settings of international education, Darla Deardorff provides the reader with the foundational principles and knowledge to develop appropriate assessment methods for evaluating and improving programme outcomes.

Foreword 1. Trudy Banta Foreword 2. Hans de Wit Acknowledgements Preface 1. Framing International Education Assessment 2. Thirty Frequently Asked Questions on Assessment in International Practice 3. The Unique Assessment Context of International Education 4. Principles for Effective Assessment in International Education 5. Approaching International Education Assessment Holistically. The Logic Model 6. Getting Started 7. Developing an Assessment Strategy. The Assessment Process 8. Pitfalls to Avoid, Strategies and Lessons Learned 9. The Leadership Role in International Education Assessment 10. The Future of International Education Assessment APPENDICES Appendix A. Handouts and Worksheets Appendix B. Assessing Intercultural Competence as a Learning Outcome of International Education Appendix C. Some Thoughts on Assessing Intercultural Competence Appendix D. Checklist for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Outcomes Assessment in International Education Appendix E. Some Assessment Tools for International Education Contexts Appendix F. International Education Learning Outcomes Examples Appendix G. Selected Assessment Resources for International Educations References Index

Darla K. Deardorff is Executive Director of the Association of International Education Administrators and Affiliated Faculty at Duke University, Nelson Mandela University (South Africa), and at Shanghai International Studies University (China). Trudy W. Banta is professor of higher education and vice chancellor for planning and institutional improvement at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She is co-author of Assessment Essentials and Making a Difference, and founding editor of the bi-monthly Assessment Update. Hans de Wit is distinguished fellow and professor emeritus of the practice in international higher education at the Center for International Higher Education (CIHE) at Boston College, USA. During 2015-2020, he was full-time director of CIHE. He is senior fellow of the International Association of Universities (IAU), based at UNESCO. Hans de Wit is founding member (1989) and past president (1993-1994) of the European Association for International Education (EAIE). He is the founding editor of the Journal of Studies in International Education (Association for Studies in International Education/SAGE), and consulting editor of the journal Policy Reviews in Higher Education (SRHE). He is associate chief editor of International Higher Education, and coeditor of the book series Global Perspectives in Higher Education (Brill/Sense). He has (co)written many books and articles on international(ization of) higher education and is actively involved in assessment and consultancy in international education, for organizations such as the European Commission, the European Parliament, UNESCO, the World Bank, and IAU.He has been director of the Centre for Higher Education Internationalisation (CHEI) at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC) in Milan, Italy, and professor of internationalization of higher education at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. In 2005-2006, he was selected as a scholar of the Fulbright New Century