Abstract
This overview article argues that traditional educational assessment and educational research relies on tools that are insufficiently sensitive to the individual feelings, values, and life conditions of the people responding to the questions asked. The article summarises the main shortcomings of traditional assessment tools and with reference to the work Hayens (2009) suggests four possible solutions: 1. to individualise the whole assessment strategy (to create entire new assessment tools and mode of using them), 2. to individualise data using individual case material, 3. to individualise respondents - to give the traditional questionnaire to very specific group people, 4.- to individualise the mode of answering - to modify questionnaires by including questions that enable respondents to express their specific views.
Article present eight types of tool as examples of individualised assessment. In conclusions the author summarises advantages and disadvantages of individualised assessment.