This edited volume provides a platform for experts from various fields to introduce and discuss their different perspectives on the topic of teamwork and collaborative problem solving. It brings together researchers in organizational teaming, educational collaboration, tutoring, simulation, and gaming as well as those involved in statistical and psychometric process modelling. This book seeks to channel this expertise towards advances in the measurement and assessment of cognitive and non-cognitive skills of individuals and teams.
This edited volume provides a platform for experts from various fields to introduce and discuss their different perspectives on the topic of teamwo...
This volume brings together educational effectiveness research and international large-scale assessments, demonstrating how the two fields can be applied to inspire and improve each other, and providing readers direct links to instruments that cover a broad range of topics and have been shown to work in more than 70 countries. The book's initial chapters introduce and summarize recent discussions and developments in the conceptualization, implementation, and evaluation of international large-scale context assessments and provide an outlook on possible future developments. Subsequently, three...
This volume brings together educational effectiveness research and international large-scale assessments, demonstrating how the two fields can be appl...
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...
This book addresses challenges in the theoretically and empirically adequate assessment of competencies in educational settings. It presents the sc...
This book summarizes the international evidence on methodological issues in standard setting in education. By critically discussing the standard-setting practices implemented in the Nordic countries and by presenting new methodological approaches, it offers fresh perspectives on the current research.
Standard setting targets crucial societal objectives by defining educational benchmarks at different achievement levels, and provides feedback to policy makers, schools and teachers about the strengths and weaknesses of a school system. Given that the consequences of standard setting...
This book summarizes the international evidence on methodological issues in standard setting in education. By critically discussing the standard-se...
The book covers traditional equating methods including, mean and linear equating, frequency estimation equating and chain equating, as well as modern equating methods such as kernel equating, local equating and combinations of these.
The book covers traditional equating methods including, mean and linear equating, frequency estimation equating and chain equating, as well as modern ...
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.
This book describes the extensive contributions made toward the advancement of human assessment by scientists from one of the world's leading research institutions, Educational Testing Service. The book's four major sections detail research and development in measurement and statistics, education policy analysis and evaluation, scientific psychology, and validity. Many of the developments presented have become de-facto standards in educational and psychological measurement, including in item response theory (IRT),...
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.
This book describes the extensive contributions made toward the advancem...
This book offers a comprehensive overview of current, innovative approaches to assessing generic and domain-specific learning outcomes in higher education at both national and international levels.
This book offers a comprehensive overview of current, innovative approaches to assessing generic and domain-specific learning outcomes in higher educa...
