Table of Contents

1. Competence assessment in education: An introduction.- PART 1: Modeling and assessing student competencies.- 2. Science-P I: Modeling conceptual understanding in primary school.- 3. Science-P II: Modeling scientific reasoning in primary school.- 4. The Heidelberg inventory of geographic system competency model.- 5. An extended model of literary literacy.- 6. Self-regulated learning with expository texts as a competence: Competence structure and competence training.- 7. Investigating pre-service teachers’ professional vision within university-based teacher education.- 8. Teacher knowledge experiment: Conditions for the development of pedagogical content knowledge.- 9. Teachers’ school tracking decisions.- 10. Modeling, measuring, and training teachers´ counseling and diagnostic competences.- 11. Development and evaluation of a competency model for teaching integrative processing of texts and pictures (BiTe).- PART 3: Modeling and assessing vocational competencies and adult learning.- 12. Multidimensional competency assessments and structures in VET.- 13. Professional competencies of building trade apprentices after their first year of training.- 14. Assessing tomorrow’s potential: A competence measuring approach in vocational education and training.- PART 6: Competency development: Modeling of change and training of competencies.- 15. The development of students’ physics competence in middle school.- 16. Modelling and fostering decision-making competence regarding challenging issues of sustainable development.- 17. Metacognitive knowledge in secondary school students: Assessment, structure, and developmental change.- 18. Development of dynamic usage of strategies for integrating text and picture information in secondary schools.- 19. 20. An intensive longitudinal study on the development of student achievement over two years (LUISE).- PART 5: Innovations in psychometric models and computer-based assessment.- 21. Multidimensional structures of competencies: Focusing on text comprehension in English as a foreign language.- 22. Multidimensional adaptive measurement of competences.- 23. Development, validation and application of a competence model for mathematical problem solving by using and translating representations of functions.- 24. Relating product data to process data from computer-based competence assessment.- 25. Dynamic problem solving: Multiple-item testing based on minimal complex systems.- PART 6: Feedback from competency assessment: Concepts, conditions and consequences.- 26. Formative assessment in mathematics instruction: Theoretical considerations and empirical results of the Co2CA project.- 27. Arguing validity in educational assessment.- 28. Evaluating prerequisites for the development of a dynamic test of reading competence: Feedback effects on reading comprehension in children.