Optimising New Modes of Assessment

by Segers, Mien; Dochy, F.; Dochy, F. J. R. C.; Cascallar, Eduardo

• ISBN13: 9781402012600
• ISBN10: 1402012608
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

This is an essential book for all those concerned with the field of assessment. The authors of this book form an international group of distinguished experts in the field of assessment. They address relevant and timely conceptual and practical issues from a research perspective. It is a book which reaches forward and which, based on research results, clearly provides solutions to practical applications at the cutting edge of the emerging area of new modes of assessment. In a clear and rigorous manner, the authors explore new methods and study the various quality aspects of innovative approaches. Various research studies presented in this book focus on the impact of new modes of assessment and in doing so, they strengthen the links between instruction, learning, and assessment.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface
The Era of Assessment Engineering: Changing Perspectives on Teaching and Learning and the Role of New Modes of Assessment	p. 1
New Insights Into Learning and Teaching and Their Implications for Assessment	p. 13
Evaluating the Consequential Validity of New Modes of Assessment: The Influence of Assessment on Learning, Including Pre-, Post-, and True Assessment Effects	p. 37
Self and Peer Assessment in School and University: Reliability, Validity and Utility	p. 55
A Framework for Project-Based Assessment in Science Education	p. 89
Evaluating the Over All Test: Looking for Multiple Validity Measures	p. 119
Assessment for Learning: Reconsidering Portfolios and Research Evidence	p. 141
Students' Perceptions about New Modes of Assessment in Higher Education: a Review	p. 171
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	p. 225
Setting Standards in the Assessment of Complex Performances: The Optimized Extended-Response Standard Setting Method	p. 247
Assessment and Technology	p. 267
Index	p. 289
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