TY - BOOK ID - 15785850 TI - Competence assessment in education : research, models and instruments PY - 2017 SN - 3319500309 3319500287 9783319500287 PB - New York: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Education. KW - Assessment. KW - Educational psychology. KW - Education KW - Psychometrics. KW - Assessment, Testing and Evaluation. KW - Educational Psychology. KW - Psychology. KW - Psychology, Educational KW - Psychology KW - Child psychology KW - Educational tests and measuremen. KW - Measurement, Mental KW - Measurement, Psychological KW - Psychological measurement KW - Psychological scaling KW - Psychological statistics KW - Psychometry (Psychophysics) KW - Scaling, Psychological KW - Psychological tests KW - Scaling (Social sciences) KW - Measurement KW - Scaling KW - Methodology KW - Education—Psychology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:15785850 AB - 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.    . ER -