Assuring quality in competence assessments: the value added of applying different assessment approaches to professional education
Due to their multidimensional nature and their development in group settings, the assessment of competencies acquired in professional education goes beyond typical methodological difficulties related to any assessment of behaviour, personality or capability. Competencies are complex constructs for which it is challenging to develop reliable and valid assessments because classical assumptions such as unidimensionality, which means that components of an assessment should reflect only one underlying dimension, and independence of the individuals assessed are violated. The present pa... Show more
Authors: Blomeke, Sigrid
Published: Cham, Switzerland, Springer International Publishing AG, 2016
Resource type: Book chapter
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