Innovation and Change in Professional Education1- Optimising New Modes of Assessment: In Search of Qualities and Standards

French novelist Marcel Proust instructs us that, “a voyage of discovery consists, not of seeking new landscapes, but of seeing through new eyes.” Nowhere in the practice of education do we need to see through new eyes than in the domain of assessment. This text is aimed at all those concerned with the field of assessment. The authors form an international group of distinguished experts in the field of assessment. They address conceptual and practical issues from a research perspective. It is a book which reaches forward and which, based on research results, clearly provides solutions to practical applications at the cutting edge of the emerging area of new modes of assessment. The authors explore alternative methods and study the various quality aspects of innovative approaches. Various research studies presented in this book focus on the impact of new modes of assessment and in doing so, they strengthen the links between instruction, learning and assessment.