Chapter 1 Quality control in British higher education, David Warren Piper; Chapter 2 Raising educational standards – improving the quality of education, Kim Foss Hansen; Chapter 3 Assessment, Technology and The Quality Revolution, David Smith; Chapter 4 Educational change and assessment in the age of information technology, B Sendov, A Eskenasi; Chapter 5 Adjusting the balance of power, Lynne Cameron; Chapter 6 Some implications of student choice of course content for the processes of learning, assessment and qualification, Robert Kowalski; Chapter 7 Assessment issues in relation to experience-based learning on placements within courses, Nigel J Nixon; Chapter 8 Performance measurement in higher and continuing education, Tom Schuller; Chapter 9 Evaluation, David Clemson; Chapter 10 Evaluating large-scale, computer-related educational activity, Betty Collis; Chapter 11 The evaluation of the educational section of the Dutch Informatics Stimulation Programme (INSP), Jaap Scheerens; Chapter 12 The Italian school system, Maria Ferraris, Donatella Persico; Chapter 13 Class-group constitution procedure based on student assessment, Maria Ferretti, Lorento Laviosa; Chapter 14 Diagnostic testing in formative assessment, A Di Carlo, G Trentin; Chapter 15 Assessing and Understanding Common-Sense Knowledge, Michela Mayer; Chapter 16 The Area of social history, Antonio Calvani; Chapter 17 Aptitude tests as the predictor of success in the Israeli matriculation, Elchanan I Meir, Nurit Adler; Chapter 18 An unbiased, standardized method for quality in student assessment at the post-secondary level, Claude N Kennedy; Chapter 19 Optical mark reading technology in Chinese educational development, Roger Singer; Chapter 20 Profiling, Roger Singer; Chapter 21, John Smyth; Chapter 22 Educational development in the mountain kingdom of Bhutan, John Bailey, G J Fishburne, Tsewang Choeden, Chitra Pradhan, Jerry Turner, Minchha Wangdi;