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

Abstract

Contributors. Acknowledgements. Preface. The Era of Assessment Engineering: Changing Perspectives on Teaching and Learning and the Role of New Modes of Assessment M. Segers, F. Dochy, E. Cascallar. New Insights into Learning and Teaching and their Implications for Assessment M. Birenbaum. Evaluating the Consequential Validity of New Modes of Assessment: The Influence of Assessment on Learning, Including Pre-, Post-, and True Assessment Effects S. Gielen, F. Dochy, S. Dierick. Self and Peer Assessment in School and University: Reliability, Validity and Utility K. Topping. A framework for Project-Based Assessment in Science Education Y. Dori. Evaluating the OverAll Test: Looking for Multiple Validity Measures M. Segers. Assessment for Learning: Reconsidering Portfolios and Research Evidence A. Davies, P. LeMahieu. Students' Perceptions about New Modes of Assessment in Higher Education: a Review K. Struyven, F. Dochy, S. Janssens. Assessment of Students' Feelings of Autonomy, Competence and Social Relatedness: A New Approach to Measuring the Quality of the Learning Process through self- and Peer Assessment M. Boekaerts, A. Minnaert. Setting Standards in the Assessment of Complex Performances: The Optimized Extended-Response Standard Setting Method A. Cascallar, E. Cascallar. Assessment and Technology. H. Braun. Index.