Assessing Competence in Professional Performance across Disciplines and Professions

This book examines the challenges of cross-professional comparisons and proposes new forms of performance assessment to be used in professions education. It addresses how complex issues are learned and assessed across and within different disciplines and

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Paul F. Wimmers Marcia Mentkowski Editors

Assessing Competence in Professional Performance across Disciplines and Professions With a Foreword by Lee S. Shulman

Innovation and Change in Professional Education Volume 13

Series editor W.H. Gijselaers, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University The Netherlands Associate editors L.A. Wilkerson, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA H.P.A. Boshuizen, Center for Learning Sciences and Technologies, Open Universiteit Nederland, Heerlen, The Netherlands Editorial Board T. Duffy, School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA H. Gruber, Institute of Educational Science, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany R. Milter, Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA EunMi Park, JH Swami Institute for International Medical Education, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA Eugene L. Anderson, American Dental Education Association, Washington, DC, USA

SCOPE OF THE SERIES The primary aim of this book series is to provide a platform for exchanging experiences and knowledge about educational innovation and change in professional education and post-secondary education (engineering, law, medicine, management, health sciences, etc.). The series provides an opportunity to publish reviews, issues of general significance to theory development and research in professional education, and critical analysis of professional practice to the enhancement of educational innovation in the professions. The series promotes publications that deal with pedagogical issues that arise in the context of innovation and change of professional education. It publishes work from leading practitioners in the field, and cutting edge researchers. Each volume is dedicated to a specific theme in professional education, providing a convenient resource of publications dedicated to further development of professional education.

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6087

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Assessing Competence in Professional Performance across Disciplines and Professions With a Foreword by Lee S. Shulman

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Editors Paul F. Wimmers University of California Los Angeles, CA USA

Marcia Mentkowski Alverno College Milwaukee, WI USA

Innovation and Change in Professional Education ISBN 978-3-319-30062-7 ISBN 978-3-319-30064-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-30064-1

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