ECTS and assessment in higher education: Conference proceedings

Abstract

This document is the conference proceedings from the multidisciplinary research conference ECTS and Assessment in Higher Education, Umeå University, Sweden, June 7-9, 2006. ECTS is an abbreviation for the European Credit Transfer System. The conference had 130 participants, from 28 countries, and 16 poster- and paper-presenters. The invited keynote speakers were: Marianne Hildebrand, Terence Karran, Margaret Price and Ulrich Teichler. The first part contains the acknowledgements, the programme and the keynote speakers’ biographies together with a description of the context for the conference and the key concepts that were discussed during the conference. The second part contains a selection of the posters and papers that were presented during the conference. The conference was organised by the Department of Educational Measurement, Umeå University, Sweden.