Innovative Practices for Higher Education Assessment and Measurement (Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development)

"This book bridges the gap between political discourse, theoretical approach, and teaching practices in terms of assessment in higher education by bringing new insights and presenting novel strategies"--

Elena Cano is currently associate professor at the Department. Department of Didactics and Educational Organization. She has two Bachelors in Educational Sciences and in Economics and Business Administration and PhD in Philosophy and Education. PhD Extraordinary Award of the University of Barcelona 1995-1996. She teaches courses in different bachelos and master studies of Pedagogy and Teacher Training, basically on school organization and educational assessment subjects.

She belongs to LMI (research consolidated group with a government's recognition) and she mainly researches on assessment and feedback in higher education. She has coordinated two R & D projects on competencies' assessment. Some publications on this topic are: Evaluación por competencias en educación superior (2015, La Muralla); Regulating the Writing Process in the Teacher Training Practicum Guided by Feedback at the University of Barcelona (2015, Cambridge Journal of Education, DOI: 10.1080/0305764X.2015.1011083); La evaluación formativa de competencias a través de blogs. La experiencia de seis universidades catalanas (2013, Digital Education Review Journal); Assessment Practices at Spanish Universities: From a Learning to a Competencies Approach (2011, Evaluation & Research in Education Journal).

Georgeta Ion is currently an associate professor in the Department of Applied Pedagogy of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has a Bachelor in Psychology and Educational Sciences by the University of Bucharest, a Masters Degree in Management and Evaluation in Education by the University of Bucharest and from 2007, and a PhD in Educational Sciences by the University of Barcelona with a thesis entitled: Organisational culture and leadership. An ethnographic study. Her research topics are related to the study of the higher education, especially its organization and research management and the students' assessment in higher education. She also collaborates with Spanish and international research groups in topics related to the research-based education and evidence-based decision making in education. The most recent publications are: Competency Assessment Tool (CAT): The Evaluation of an Innovative Competency-Based Assessment Experience in Higher Education. Technology, Pedagogy and Education (DOI: 10.1080/1475939X.2015.1134635); Does Research Influence Educational Policy? The Perspective of Researchers and Policy- Makers in Romania (2015, The European Higher Education Area: Between Critical Reflections and Future Policies, Springer).