1. Competence assessment in education: An introduction; Detlev Leutner, Jens Fleischer, Juliane Grünkorn and Eckhard Klieme.- PART 1: Modeling and assessing student competencies.- 2. Science-P I: Modeling conceptual understanding in primary school; Judith Pollmeier, Steffen Tröbst, Ilonca Hardy, Kornelia Möller, Thilo Kleickmann, Astrid Jurecka and Knut Schwippert.- 3. Science-P II: Modeling scientific reasoning in primary school; Susanne Koerber, Beate Sodian, Christopher Osterhaus, Daniela Mayer, Nicola Kropf and Knut Schwippert.- 4. The Heidelberg inventory of geographic system competency model; Kathrin Viehrig, Alexander Siegmund, Joachim Funke, Sasche Wüstenberg and Samuel Greiff.- 5. An extended model of literary literacy; Christel Meier, Thorsten Roick, Sofie Henschel, Jörn Brüggemann, Volker Frederking, Adelheid Rieder, Volker Gerner and Petra Stanat.- 6. Self-regulated learning with expository texts as a competence: Competence structure and competence training; Joachim Wirth, Melanie Schütte, Jessica Wixfort and Detlev Leutner.-
PART 2: Modeling and assessing teacher competencies.- 7. Investigating pre-service teachers' professional vision within university-based teacher education; Tina Seidel, Kathleen Stürmer, Manfred Prenzel, Gloria Jahn and Stefanie Schäfer.- 8. Teacher knowledge experiment: Conditions for the development of pedagogical content knowledge; Thilo Kleickmann, Steffen Tröbst, Aiso Heinze, Andrea Anschütz, Roland Rink and Mareike Kunter.- 9. Teachers' school tracking decisions; Ines Böhmer, Cornelia Gräsel, Sabine Krolak- Schwerdt, Thomas Hörstermann and Sabine Glock.- 10. Modeling, measuring, and training teachers´ counseling and diagnostic competences; Mara Gerich, Monika Trittel, Simone Bruder, Julia Klug, Silke Hertel, Regina Bruder and Bernhard Schmit.- 11. Development and evaluation of a competency model for teaching integrative processing of texts and pictures (BiTe); Annika Ohle, Nele McElvany, Britta Oerke, Wolfgang Schnotz, Inga Wagner, Holger Horz, Mark Ullrich and Jürgen Baumert.- PART 3: Modeling and assessing vocational competencies and adult learning.- 12. Multidimensional competency assessments and structures in VET; Tobias Gschwendtner, Stephan Abele, Thomas Schmidt and Reinhold Nickolaus.- 13. Professional competencies of building trade apprentices after their first year of training; Kerstin Norwig, Cordula Petsch and Reinhold Nickolaus.- 14. Assessing tomorrow's potential: A competence measuring approach in vocational education and training; Viola Katharina Klotz and Esther Winther.- PART 6: Competency development: Modeling of change and training of competencies.- 15. The development of students' physics competence in middle school; Susanne Weßnigk, Knut Neumann, Tobias Viering, David Hadinek and Hans E. Fischer.- 16. Modelling and fostering decision-making competence regarding challenging issues of sustainable development; Susanne Bögeholz, Sabina Eggert, Carolin Ziese and Marcus Hasselhorn.- 17. Metacognitive knowledge in secondary school students: Assessment, structure, and developmental change; Wolfgang Schneider, Klaus Lingel, Cordula Artelt and Nora Neuenhaus.- 18. Development of dynamic usage of strategies for integrating text and picture information in secondary schools; Wolfgang Schnotz, Inga Wagner, Fang Zhao, Mark Ullrich, Holger Horz, Nele McElvany, Annika Ohle & Jürgen Baumert.- 19. Training of components of problem-solving competence: An experimental study on aspects of the cognitive potential exploitation hypothesis;