ERIC Number: ED612769
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 3
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Exploring Measures of Non-Economic Benefits. The Postsecondary Value Framework
Postsecondary Value Commission
Economic returns are critical to building a financially secure future and promoting mobility for students. As such, the Postsecondary Value Commission focuses on measuring both the personal and public economic returns from higher education. However, the commission also considers non-economic outcomes both because they are closely tied to economic returns and because non-economic benefits hold their own intrinsic value. To this end, the Postsecondary Value Commission explored three important and interrelated non-economic benefits to postsecondary education: learning outcomes, skills, and wellbeing. This overview discusses these non-economic benefits and the reports associated with each benefit. Measurement of these three non-economic returns is challenging, especially in ways that would enable them to be measured within the commission's framework. As a result, the commission relied on experts in the field to better understand these important non-economic benefits, their relationship to equitable postsecondary value, and how the field is advancing in measuring them. [For related reports, see ED612729, ED612639, and ED612652.]
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Outcomes of Education, Well Being, Job Skills, College Outcomes Assessment, Equal Education
Postsecondary Value Commission. Available from: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. e-mail: ValueCommission@IHEP.org; Website: https://www.postsecondaryvalue.org/
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Postsecondary Education; Higher Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Postsecondary Value Commission
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