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Competence Assessment in Education

Research, Models and Instruments

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Editors:
  1. Detlev Leutner

    1. Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Instructional Psychology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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  2. Jens Fleischer

    1. Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Instructional Psychology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

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  3. Juliane Grünkorn

    1. German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF), Frankfurt/Main, Germany

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  4. Eckhard Klieme

    1. German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF), Frankfurt/Main, Germany

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  • 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

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Competence Assessment in Education: An Introduction

    • Detlev Leutner, Jens Fleischer, Juliane Grünkorn, Eckhard Klieme
    Pages 1-6

  3. Modeling and Assessing Student Competencies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Science-P I: Modeling Conceptual Understanding in Primary School

      • Judith Pollmeier, Steffen Tröbst, Ilonca Hardy, Kornelia Möller, Thilo Kleickmann, Astrid Jurecka et al.
      Pages 9-17

    3. Science-P II: Modeling Scientific Reasoning in Primary School

      • Susanne Koerber, Beate Sodian, Christopher Osterhaus, Daniela Mayer, Nicola Kropf, Knut Schwippert
      Pages 19-29

    4. The Heidelberg Inventory of Geographic System Competency Model

      • Kathrin Viehrig, Alexander Siegmund, Joachim Funke, Sascha Wüstenberg, Samuel Greiff
      Pages 31-53

    5. An Extended Model of Literary Literacy

      • Christel Meier, Thorsten Roick, Sofie Henschel, Jörn Brüggemann, Volker Frederking, Adelheid Rieder et al.
      Pages 55-74

    6. Self-Regulated Learning with Expository Texts as a Competence: Competence Structure and Competence Training

      • Joachim Wirth, Melanie Schütte, Jessica Wixfort, Detlev Leutner
      Pages 75-89

  4. Modeling and Assessing Teacher Competencies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. Investigating Pre-service Teachers’ Professional Vision Within University-Based Teacher Education

      • Tina Seidel, Kathleen Stürmer, Manfred Prenzel, Gloria Jahn, Stefanie Schäfer
      Pages 93-109

    3. Teacher Knowledge Experiment: Conditions of the Development of Pedagogical Content Knowledge

      • Thilo Kleickmann, Steffen Tröbst, Aiso Heinze, Andrea Bernholt, Roland Rink, Mareike Kunter
      Pages 111-129

    4. Teachers’ School Tracking Decisions

      • Ines Böhmer, Cornelia Gräsel, Sabine Krolak-Schwerdt, Thomas Hörstermann, Sabine Glock
      Pages 131-147

    5. Modeling, Measuring, and Training Teachers’ Counseling and Diagnostic Competencies

      • Mara Gerich, Monika Trittel, Simone Bruder, Julia Klug, Silke Hertel, Regina Bruder et al.
      Pages 149-166

    6. Development and Evaluation of a Competence Model for Teaching Integrative Processing of Texts and Pictures (BiTe)

      • Annika Ohle, Nele McElvany, Britta Oerke, Wolfgang Schnotz, Inga Wagner, Holger Horz et al.
      Pages 167-180

  5. Modeling and Assessing Vocational Competencies and Adult Learning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181
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    2. Multidimensional Competency Assessments and Structures in VET

      • Tobias Gschwendtner, Stephan Abele, Thomas Schmidt, Reinhold Nickolaus
      Pages 183-202

    3. Professional Competencies of Building Trade Apprentices After Their First Year of Training

      • Kerstin Norwig, Cordula Petsch, Reinhold Nickolaus
      Pages 203-220

    4. Assessing Tomorrow’s Potential: A Competence Measuring Approach in Vocational Education and Training

      • Viola Katharina Klotz, Esther Winther
      Pages 221-243

  6. Competency Development: Modeling of Change and Training of Competencies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245
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    2. The Development of Students’ Physics Competence in Middle School

      • Susanne Weßnigk, Knut Neumann, Tobias Viering, David Hadinek, Hans E. Fischer
      Pages 247-262
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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.   

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Instructional Psychology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

    Detlev Leutner, Jens Fleischer

  • 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

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