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In mid-2010, the National Center for the Evaluation of Higher Education in Mexico (Ceneval) received an invitation from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (through the Johannes Gutenberg University at Mainz and Humboldt University) to deliver a keynote lecture about the operation of the Mexican Higher Education Exit Assessments Tests (EGEL) at a conference entitled “Modeling and Measurement of Competencies in Higher Education” that was held in Berlin in early 2011. The following lines present the highlights of that presentation.
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Uribe, R.V. (2013). Measurement of Learning Outcomes in Higher Education. In: Blömeke, S., Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, O., Kuhn, C., Fege, J. (eds) Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education. Professional and Vet Learning, vol 1. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-867-4_10
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