Competence Assessment in Education

1. Competence Assessment in Education: An Introduction
Detlev Leutner, Jens Fleischer, Juliane Grünkorn, Eckhard Klieme

Part I. Modeling and Assessing Student Competencies

2. Science-P I: Modeling Conceptual Understanding in Primary School
Judith Pollmeier, Steffen Tröbst, Ilonca Hardy, Kornelia Möller, Thilo Kleickmann, Astrid Jurecka, Knut Schwippert

3. Science-P II: Modeling Scientific Reasoning in Primary School
Susanne Koerber, Beate Sodian, Christopher Osterhaus, Daniela Mayer, Nicola Kropf, Knut Schwippert

4. The Heidelberg Inventory of Geographic System Competency Model
Kathrin Viehrig, Alexander Siegmund, Joachim Funke, Sascha Wüstenberg, Samuel Greiff

5. An Extended Model of Literary Literacy
Christel Meier, Thorsten Roick, Sofie Henschel, Jörn Brüggemann, Volker Frederking, Adelheid Rieder, Volker Gerner, Petra Stanat

6. Self-Regulated Learning with Expository Texts as a Competence: Competence Structure and Competence Training
Joachim Wirth, Melanie Schütte, Jessica Wixfort, Detlev Leutner

Part II. Modeling and Assessing Teacher Competencies

7. Investigating Pre-service Teachers’ Professional Vision Within University-Based Teacher Education
Tina Seidel, Kathleen Stürmer, Manfred Prenzel, Gloria Jahn, Stefanie Schäfer

8. Teacher Knowledge Experiment: Conditions of the Development of Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Thilo Kleickmann, Steffen Tröbst, Aiso Heinze, Andrea Bernholt, Roland Rink, Mareike Kunter

9. Teachers’ School Tracking Decisions
Ines Böhmer, Cornelia Gräsel, Sabine Krolak-Schwerdt, Thomas Hörstermann, Sabine Glock

10. Modeling, Measuring, and Training Teachers’ Counseling and Diagnostic Competencies
Mara Gerich, Monika Trittel, Simone Bruder, Julia Klug, Silke Hertel, Regina Bruder, Bernhard Schmitz

11. 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, Mark Ullrich, Jürgen Baumert

Part III. Modeling and Assessing Vocational Competencies and Adult Learning

12. Multidimensional Competency Assessments and Structures in VET
Tobias Gschwendtner, Stephan Abele, Thomas Schmidt, Reinhold Nickolaus

13. Professional Competencies of Building Trade Apprentices After Their First Year of Training
Kerstin Norwig, Cordula Petsch, Reinhold Nickolaus

14. Assessing Tomorrow’s Potential: A Competence Measuring Approach in Vocational Education and Training
Viola Katharina Klotz, Esther Winther

Part IV. Competency Development: Modeling of Change and Training of Competencies

15. The Development of Students’ Physics Competence in Middle School
Susanne Weßnigk, Knut Neumann, Tobias Viering, David Hadinek, Hans E. Fischer

16. Modeling and Fostering Decision-Making Competencies Regarding Challenging Issues of Sustainable Development
Susanne Bögeholz, Sabina Eggert, Carolin Ziese, Marcus Hasselhorn

17. Metacognitive Knowledge in Secondary School Students: Assessment, Structure, and Developmental Change
Wolfgang Schneider, Klaus Lingel, Cordula Artelt, Nora Neuenhaus

18. Development of Dynamic Usage of Strategies for Integrating Text and Picture Information in Secondary Schools
Wolfgang Schnotz, Inga Wagner, Fang Zhao, Mark Ullrich, Holger Horz, Nele McElvany, Annika Ohle, Jürgen Baumert

19. Training in Components of Problem-Solving Competence: An Experimental Study of Aspects of the Cognitive Potential Exploitation Hypothesis
Florian Buchwald, Jens Fleischer, Stefan Rumann, Joachim Wirth, Detlev Leutner

20. An Intensive Longitudinal Study of the Development of Student Achievement over Two Years (LUISE)
Gizem Hülür, Fidan Gasimova, Alexander Robitzsch, Oliver Wilhelm

Part V. Innovations in Psychometric Models and Computer-Based Assessment

21. Multidimensional Structures of Competencies: Focusing on Text Comprehension in English as a Foreign Language
Johannes Hartig, Claudia Harsch

22. Multidimensional Adaptive Measurement of Competencies
Andreas Frey, Ulf Kroehne, Nicki-Nils Seitz, Sebastian Born

23. Development, Validation, and Application of a Competence Model for Mathematical Problem Solving by Using and Translating Representations of Functions
Timo Leuders, Regina Bruder, Ulf Kroehne, Dominik Naccarella, Renate Nitsch, Jan Henning-Kahmann, Augustin Kelava, Markus Wirtz

24. Relating Product Data to Process Data from Computer-Based Competency Assessment
Frank Goldhammer, Johannes Naumann, Heiko Rölke, Annette Stelter, Krisztina Tóth

25. Dynamic Problem Solving: Multiple-Item Testing Based on Minimally Complex Systems
Joachim Funke, Samuel Greiff

Part VI. Feedback From Competency Assessment: Concepts, Conditions and Consequences

26. Formative Assessment in Mathematics Instruction: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Results of the Co2CA Project
Katrin Rakoczy, Eckhard Klieme, Dominik Leiß, Werner Blum

27. Arguing Validity in Educational Assessment
Simon P. Tiffin-Richards, Hans Anand Pant

28. Evaluating Prerequisites for the Development of a Dynamic Test of Reading Competence: Feedback Effects on Reading Comprehension in Children
Tobias Dörfler, Stefanie Golke, Cordula Artelt

Keywords: Education, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Psychometrics, Educational Psychology