First Published in 2005. Assessment and evaluation are essential to education and training. Whether informal or formal, at their best they assist the learning process by providing feedback to 'learners' and 'teachers', facilitate quality assurance and control, and provide a mechanism whereby education and training can be attuned to the needs of the individual and society. This edition of the World Yearbook focuses upon a wide range of assessment and evaluation issues from all over the globe.

Introduction 1. Quality control in British higher education 2. Raising educational standards - improving the quality of higher education 3. Assessment, technology and the quality revolution 4. Educational change and assessment in the age of information technology 5. Adjusting the balance of power: initial self-assessment in study skills for higher education - a case study 6. Some implications of student choice of course content for the processes of learning, assessment and qualification 7. Assessment issues in relation to experience-based learning on placements within courses 8. Performance measurement in higher and continuing education 9. Evaluation: a problem-solving activity? 10. Evaluating large-scale, computer-related educational activity: an example from The Netherlands 11. The evaluation of the educational section of the Dutch Informatics Stimulation Programme (INSP) 12. The Italian school system 13. Class-group constitution procedure based on student assessment 14. Diagnostic testing in formative assessment: the students as test developers 15. Assessing and understanding common-sense knowledge 16. The area of social history: what to assess and how to assess it 17. Aptitude tests as the predictor of success in the Israeli matriculation 18. An unbiased, standardized method for quality in student assessment at the post-secondary level 19. Optical mark reading technology in Chinese educational development 20. Profiling: the role of technology 21. Teacher evaluation as the technology of increased centralism in education 22. Educational developments in the mountain kingdom of Bhutan