spotlight on assessment and 21 st century skills: moving beyond ayp
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Spotlight on Assessment and 21st Century Skills: Moving Beyond AYP
Partnership for 21st Century Skills CoSN K-12 School Networking ConferenceWashington, D.C.March 10, 2008
• Who is the Partnership and what is the Framework for 21st Century Skills?
• Formative Assessment of 21st century skills
• Summative Assessment of 21st century skills
• The Maine Experience • The North Carolina Experience
Overview
P21 Members
Who is the Partnership?
A unique partnership between business, education and
policymakers
With support from the U.S. Department of Education
• Who is the Partnership and what is the Framework for 21st Century Skills?
• Formative Assessment of 21st century skills
• Summative Assessment of 21st century skills
• The Maine Experience • The North Carolina Experience
Overview
20th Century Education Model
21st Century Skills Framework
21st Century Skills Framework
Core Subjects- Economics- English- Government - Arts- History- Geography- Reading or Language- Arts- Mathematics- Science- World Languages- Civics
21st Century Themes- Global Awareness- Financial, Economic, Business & Entrepreneurship Literacy- Civic Literacy- Health Literacy
Learning & Innovation Skills
• Critical Thinking & Problem Solving• Creativity & Innovation• Communication & Collaboration
21st Century Skills Framework
21st Century Skills Framework
Information, Media & Technology Skills
• Information Literacy• Media Literacy• ICT (Information, Communications & Technology) Literacy
21st Century Skills Framework
Life & Career Skills
• Flexibility & Adaptability• Initiative & Self-Direction• Social & Cross-Cultural Skills• Productivity & Accountability• Leadership & Responsibility
Learning & Innovation Skills
• Critical Thinking & Problem Solving• Creativity & Innovation• Communication & Collaboration
21st Century Skills Framework
How do I learn more about 21st century skills?
21st Century Skills Framework
www.21stcenturyskills.org/route21
• Who is the Partnership and what is the Framework for 21st Century Skills?
• Formative Assessment of 21st century skills
• Summative Assessment of 21st century skills
• The Maine Experience • The North Carolina Experience
Overview
What is Formative Assessment?
It is a process used by teachers and students during instruction that provides feedback to adjust ongoing teaching and
learning to improve students’ achievement of intended outcomes.
-- CCSSO
Formative Assessment
• Clarifying and sharing learning intentions and criteria for success
• Engineering effective classroom discussions, questions and learning tasks that elicit evidence of learning
• Providing feedback that moves learning forward• Activating students as the owners of their own
learning• Activating students as instructional resources for
one another
“Classroom Assessment: Minute by Minute, Day by Day” Leahy, Lyon, Thompson, Wiliam. 2005.
Formative Assessment
What does it look like in the classroom?
Issues
• Definitional Issues
• Gray areas
• Grading
• Teacher Time
Formative Assessment
Partnership for 21st Century Skills White Paper on Assessment
Formative Assessment
P21 Paper• Focus on 21st century skills
• Make thinking visible, structured, real time, authentic
• Data used to inform instruction
• Build capacity of teachers and students
Formative Assessment
F. A. Characteristics in Literature
• Clarifying learning intensions/criteria (standards)
• Rich information, elicit evidence of learning, during learning
• Feedback to advance learning
• Process used by teachers and students, activating students
Partnership for 21st Century Skills White Paper on Assessment
What Teachers Need
• Good assessment skills• Pedagogical content knowledge• Professional development
Formative Assessment
Why is formative assessment so important for 21st century skills?
• Impact on performance• Greater authenticity possible
Formative Assessment
Additional Comments
• External resources• Tools in white paper• Technology
– Capabilities for formative assessment– 21st century technology skills
Formative Assessment
• Who is the Partnership and what is the Framework for 21st Century Skills?
• Formative Assessment of 21st century skills
• Summative Assessment of 21st century skills
• The Maine Experience • The North Carolina Experience
Overview
PISA
• Competition is global.• Internationally we are being held to
different standards.• PISA is an assessment that is looking
toward the future. It is rooted in “labor market demands.”
• Basic skills are necessary, but not sufficient.
Summative Assessment
Source: Levy F. and R.J. Murnane (2004) The New Division of Labor: How Computers are Creating the Next Labor Market. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
Summative Assessment
Developing large scale 21st century assessments is challenging
• Expensive – government investment in innovation is essential (enhanced assessment grants).
• Test development is bound by disciplinary conventions.
• The status quo tends to drive much of what is done.
Summative Assessment
Innovation is possible and essential
• Assessments drive learning• States – reframing of standards and
RFP process• Vendors can innovate and so can the
government…..
Summative Assessment
No innovation
Radical innovation
Paper-based Computer-based
E-assessment – migration vs. transformation
Summative Assessment
Collegiate Learning Assessment Council for Aid to Education
Performance tasks• Critical thinking• Analytic reasoning• Problem solving• Written communication
Summative Assessment
ASIAN TIGER MOSQUITO: Question 1 and Document Library Contents
ASIAN TIGER MOSQUITO: Experiment Pictures
MYTHS: Brueghel Painting
• High school and college – Competencies: Define, Access, Evaluate,
Manage, Integrate, Create, Communicate– Content Topics: Humanities, Social Science,
Practical Affairs, Popular Culture, Natural Sciences
– Technology Topics - Communication and Research Tools, Database Management, Productivity Tools
ETS - iSkillsSummative Assessment
Summative Assessment
www.21stcenturyskills.org/Route21
• Who is the Partnership and what is the Framework for 21st Century Skills?
• Formative Assessment of 21st century skills
• Summative Assessment of 21st century skills
• The Maine Experience • The North Carolina Experience
Overview
Maine Experience
• Elements of classroom assessment• Self-assessment• Goal setting• Setting criteria
• Criteria based assessments.• What counts in the work?• Engagement of students in reflection of
learning = increased learning.Show evidence of learning –Use wikis, video and digital
story-telling
21st Century AssessmentMaine Experience
Feedback• Peer conferences, peer editing
• Project work with scientists, writers, journalists, architects and town planners
• MEA constructed responses/ETS pilot
Maine Experience
Keep the Focus on Learning
Maine Experience
• Who is the Partnership and what is the Framework for 21st Century Skills?
• Formative Assessment of 21st century skills
• Summative Assessment of 21st century skills
• The Maine Experience • The North Carolina Experience
Overview
North Carolina Experience
• North Carolina Computer Skills Test• Physics End-of-Course (online test)• Biology End-of-Course (true 21st
century assessment)
• The application suite designed to provide an interface to the North Carolina Online Test of Computer Skills.
• NCDesk is a collection of small Java programs that replicate common applications, plus a test interface and a test simulation used to understand how the test will work.
• The NCDesk programs perform a limited set of functions and can be used externally from the test and test simulation.
NCDesk
North Carolina Experience
North Carolina Experience
Online EOC Physics Test•84 multiple choice tests•Administered online•No longer than 4 hours
North Carolina Experience
North Carolina Experience
Biology EOC PFL*PFL: Preparation for Future Learning multimedia
instructional technology
North Carolina Experience
Challenge• Develop a multimedia product that can assess
students’ content knowledge as well as their mastery of 21st century skills.
• Provide students the opportunity to use information as adults do in their jobs/lives.
• Provide formative and summative feedback to students while they simultaneously learn new information and develop new skills.
• Help students learn while they are being assessed so that no instructional time is lost to testing.
North Carolina Experience
North Carolina Experience
• Design/research team headed by John Bransford (University of Washington)
• Based on NC Standard Course of Study content: natural selection/genetic traits
• Augmented classroom instruction with multimedia content to expand student understanding of core content
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/accountability/testing/computerskills/
http://cuacs8.mck.ncsu.edu/ncdesk/
North Carolina Experience
We need 21st century assessments.
Conclusion
Conclusion
We need a balance of formative and summative
assessments of 21st century skills.
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