Abstract
The dispersion of new technologies into education opens up new perspectives for the assessment of students' performance, not only in their knowledge but also in their skills. One of these perspectives is the use of systems that enable adaptive assessment, i.e., personalized (mostly online) assessment according to the actual position of each student in the knowledge or skills hierarchy.
The general presumption of this approach is that each student solves tasks according to his/her previous success - if the student fails, then s/he is presented with lower-level tasks; if s/he succeeds, s/he proceeds to more complicated tasks. Students' progress is supported by the hints available and in particular by the structure of tasks, as easier tasks support the solution of the more complicated ones according to the theory of pedagogical scaffolding.
The chapter first discusses a general framework for the use of adaptive assessment and then presents a practical example of the use of the framework to assess the level of map skills - the online adaptive application Mapwork.education. Following a general description of the application, various possibilities of its use in geography lessons are outlined.