Optimising New Modes of Assessment: In Search of Qualities and Standards

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Segers, Mien. (Editor), Dochy, Filip. (Editor), Cascallar, Eduardo. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2003.
• Series: Innovation and Change in Professional Education ; 1
• Subjects: Education.; Science education.; Assessment.; Education, general.; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation.; Science Education.; Learning & Instruction.
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French novelist Marcel Proust instructs us that, ỚSa voyage of discovery consists, not of seeking new landscapes, but of seeing through new eyes.Ớ<U+00fd> Nowhere in the practice of education do we need to see through new eyes than in the domain of assessment. We have been trapped by our c...

Table of Contents:

• The Era of Assessment Engineering: Changing Perspectives on Teaching and Learning and the Role of New Modes of Assessment
• New Insights Into Learning and Teaching and Their Implications for Assessment
• Evaluating the Consequential Validity of New Modes of Assessment: The Influence of Assessment on Learning, Including Pre-, Post-, and True Assessment Effects
• Self and Peer Assessment in School and University: Reliability, Validity and Utility
• A Framework for Project-Based Assessment in Science Education
• Evaluating the Over All Test: Looking for Multiple Validity Measures
• Assessment for Learning: Reconsidering Portfolios and Research Evidence
• StudentsỚ" Perceptions about New Modes of Assessment in Higher Education: A Review
• Assessment of StudentsỚ" Feelings of Autonomy, Competence, and Social Relatedness: A New Approach to Measuring the Quality of the Learning Process through Self- and Peer Assessment
• Setting Standards in the Assessment of Complex Performances: The Optimized Extended-Response Standard Setting Method
• Assessment and Technology.