Editors:
- Provides a comprehensive compilation of research results from numerous projects on the assessment of competencies in different domains
- Meets the demand for more integrative, interdisciplinary research on the structure, levels, and development of competencies
- Presents highly compatible research that is cross-linked with universities and research institutions throughout Germany and abroad
Part of the book series: Methodology of Educational Measurement and Assessment (MEMA)
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Modeling and Assessing Student Competencies
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Modeling and Assessing Teacher Competencies
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Modeling and Assessing Vocational Competencies and Adult Learning
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Competency Development: Modeling of Change and Training of Competencies
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About this book
This book addresses challenges in the theoretically and empirically adequate assessment of competencies in educational settings. It presents the scientific projects of the priority program “Competence Models for Assessing Individual Learning Outcomes and Evaluating Educational Processes,” which focused on competence assessment across disciplines in Germany.
The six-year program coordinated 30 research projects involving experts from the fields of psychology, educational science, and subject-specific didactics. The main reference point for all projects is the concept of “competencies,” which are defined as “context-specific cognitive dispositions that are acquired and needed to successfully cope with certain situations or tasks in specific domains” (Koeppen et al., 2008, p. 62). The projects investigate different aspects of competence assessment: The primary focus lies on the development of cognitive models of competencies, complemented by the construction of psychometric models based on these theoretical models. In turn, the psychometric models constitute the basis for the construction of instruments for effectively measuring competencies.
The assessment of competencies plays a key role in optimizing educational processes and improving the effectiveness of educational systems. This book contributes to this challenging endeavor by meeting the need for more integrative, interdisciplinary research on the structure, levels, and development of competencies.
Keywords
- Competence modelling
- Competence development
- Science competencies
- Competence levels
- Learning progression
- Training of competencies
- Teacher competencies
- Student competencies
- Literary literacy
- Self-regulated learning
- Vocational competencies
- Problem solving competence
- Metacognitive knowledge
- Mathematical competence
- Reading competence
- Multidimensional IRT
- Computerized adaptive testing
- Computer-based assessment
- DFG-Priority Program
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Instructional Psychology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
Detlev Leutner, Jens Fleischer
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German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF), Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Juliane Grünkorn, Eckhard Klieme
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Competence Assessment in Education
Book Subtitle: Research, Models and Instruments
Editors: Detlev Leutner, Jens Fleischer, Juliane Grünkorn, Eckhard Klieme
Series Title: Methodology of Educational Measurement and Assessment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50030-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50028-7Published: 04 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84301-8Published: 21 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50030-0Published: 27 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2367-170X
Series E-ISSN: 2367-1718
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 503
Number of Illustrations: 84 b/w illustrations
Topics: Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Psychometrics, Educational Psychology