Optimising new modes of assessment : in search of qualities and standards /

• Other Authors: Segers, Mien (Editor), Dochy, F. J. R. C. (Filip J. R. C.) (Editor), Cascallar, Eduardo (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, �2003.
• Series: Innovation and change in professional education ; v. 1.
• Subjects: Academic achievement > Evaluation.; Learning > Evaluation.; Educational tests and measurements.; EDUCATION > Evaluation.; STUDY AIDS > Tests.; EDUCATION > Testing & Measurement.; Health Status Indicators.; United States.; Electronic books.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 299 pages) : illustrations.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 0306481251; 9780306481253; 9781402012600; 1402012608

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.