Visualization of achievement of the diploma policy by the assessment of generic skills

Diploma policies stipulate the requirements for each student to successfully gain knowledge and skills through university education. Thus, it is important to visualize learning outcomes to measure students’ abilities. In this study, we examined the annual changes in the level of achievement regarding diploma policy using the PROG test, which can evaluate literacy and competency as generic skills. Components of generic skills in the PROG test were assigned individually to items of diploma policy, and the efficacy of diploma policy was evaluated. The achievement of diploma policy was approximately from 50-70 %. Furthermore, generic skills were able to describe in detail the students’ abilities acquired as learning outcomes. These results suggest that generic skills can be useful assessment indicators for visualizing the achievement of the diploma policy in university education.