Following on the 2008-2012 OECD Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO) feasibility study of civil engineering, in Japan a mechanical engineering learning outcomes assessment working group was established within the National Institute of Education Research (NIER), which became the Tuning National Center for Japan. The purpose of the project is to develop among engineering faculty members, common understandings of engineering learning outcomes, through the collaborative process of test item development, scoring, and sharing of results. By substantiating abstract level learning outcomes into concrete level learning outcomes that are attainable and assessable, and through measuring and comparing the students’ achievement of learning outcomes, it is anticipated that faculty members will be able to draw practical implications for educational improvement at the program and course levels. The development of a mechanical engineering test item bank began with test item development workshops, which led to a series of trial tests, and then to a large scale test implementation in 2016 of 348 first semester master’s students in 9 institutions in Japan, using both multiple choice questions designed to measure the mastery of basic and engineering sciences, and a constructive response task designed to measure “how well students can think like an engineer.” The same set of test items were translated from Japanese into to English and Indonesian, and used to measure achievement of learning outcomes at Indonesia’s Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) on 37 rising fourth year undergraduate students. This paper highlights how learning outcomes assessment can effectively facilitate learning outcomes-based education, by documenting the experience of Japanese and Indonesian mechanical engineering faculty members engaged in the NIER Test Item Bank project. First published online: 30 November 2017

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开发机械工程测试项目库，以促进日本和印度尼西亚高等教育机构中基于学习成果的教育

继2008-2012年OECD土木工程学高等教育评估结果（AHELO）可行性研究之后，日本在国立教育研究所（NIER）内成立了机械工程学学习成果评估工作组，该工作组成为了美国日本中心。该项目的目的是通过测试项目开发，评分和结果共享的协作过程，在工程学系教职员工之间发展对工程学学习成果的共识。通过将抽象水平的学习成果充实为可达到和可评估的具体水平的学习成果，并通过衡量和比较学生的学习成果成就，可以预期，教职员工将能够在课程和课程层次上对提高教育水平产生实际影响。机械工程测试项目库的开发始于测试项目开发研讨会，该研讨会导致了一系列的测试测试，然后在2016年对日本9个机构的348个第一学期硕士生进行了大规模测试，旨在考量基础科学和工程学精通程度的选择题，以及旨在衡量“学生像工程师一样思考的能力”的建设性应对任务。同一套测试项目从日语翻译成英语和印度尼西亚语，并用于衡量印度尼西亚的万隆理工学院（ITB）对37名不断上升的四年级本科生的学习成绩。本文通过记录参与NIER测试项目库项目的日本和印度尼西亚机械工程学院教师的经验，重点介绍学习成果评估如何有效促进基于学习成果的教育。首次在线发布：2017年11月30日