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A Strategy for the Assessment of Competencies in Higher Education

The BEAR Assessment System

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Part of the book series: Professional and Vet Learning ((PAVL,volume 1))

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The Berkeley Evaluation and Assessment Research (BEAR) Center has developed an assessment system called the BEAR Assessment System (BAS), which is based on four principles of sound assessment (Wilson, 2005). In turn, each principle is associated with a practical “building block” that embodies the way in which the principle is used in an assessment context, and the whole system is brought together by an integrative activity that can take on different aspects under different circumstances (e.g., assessment moderation, cut score setting, etc.).

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  1. Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, USA

    Mark Wilson

  2. Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, USA

    Karen Draney

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  1. Institute of Education, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany

    Sigrid Blömeke

  2. Chair of Business Education, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

    Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia

  3. Chair of Business Education, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

    Christiane Kuhn

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Wilson, M., Draney, K. (2013). A Strategy for the Assessment of Competencies in Higher Education. In: Blömeke, S., Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, O., Kuhn, C., Fege, J. (eds) Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education. Professional and Vet Learning, vol 1. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-867-4_5

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