ABSTRACT
In this chapter, an overview will be given of the basic elements of educational measurement. The main topic of this chapter is an inventory of the state of the art with respect to the specification and development of assessment instruments, both for knowledge and skills. So the emphasis will be on tests for the cognitive and psychomotor domain. (Tests for the affective domain, say the domain of attitudes, motivation and emotions, will not be treated here, for this topic one is referred to Anderson & Bourke, 2000).
