Assessing and Improving Skills in College: China, India, Russia, and the United States

Using nationally representative data on STEM undergraduates collected from China, India and Russia (which train about half of the world's STEM undergraduates) and the United States, Assistant Professor Prashant Loyalka shares his study’s findings that assess and compare levels and gains in academic and higher order thinking skills among college students in multiple countries, and examines which factors (institutional, faculty, instructional, peer, student) affect skills and improve the quality of higher education.