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 eBook
• 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.

French novelist Marcel Proust instructs us that, “a voyage of discovery consists, not of seeking new landscapes, but of seeing through new eyes.” 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 collective experienc...