What is a competent 'competence standard'? Tensions between the construct and assessment as a tool for learning

Effie Maclellan

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    Abstract

    Using the UK's recent disability legislation as a trigger, the paper explores issues in evidencing competence in the current context of using assessment as a tool for learning. In the current context of requiring assessment to be edumetrically sound, the legislation of competence standards is problematic in four respects. Task Validity is now a much more diffuse concept. Scoring Validity has to contend with many possible accommodations. Assessment Generalisability has to consider both the relevance and representativeness of the assessment task. Consequential Validity is essentially concerned with formative assessment; which is considered pedagogically important but, politically, is of less significance than summative assessment. This study offers academics and administrators a framework within which to review the edumetric soundness of their assessment practices and policies. In so doing possible difficulties in equitable assessment can be made explicit. This, in turn, has implications for staff development.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)437-448
    Number of pages12
    JournalQuality Assurance in Education
    Volume15
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2007

    Keywords

    • edumetric assessment
    • authentic assessment
    • consequential validity
    • assessment

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