A Strategy for the Assessment of Competencies in Higher Education

Abstract

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.).