Innovative Assessment For The 21st Century

Author : Valerie J. Shute,Betsy Jane Becker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781441965301

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Innovative Assessment for the 21st Century by Valerie J. Shute,Betsy Jane Becker Pdf

In today’s rapidly changing and information-rich world, students are not acquiring adequate knowledge and skills to prepare them for careers in mathematics, science, and technology with the traditional approach to assessment and instruction. New competencies (e.g., information communication and technology skills) are needed to deal successfully with the deluge of data. In order to accomplish this, new "educationally valuable" skills must be acknowledged and assessed. Toward this end, the skills we value and support for a society producing knowledge workers, not simply service workers, must be identified, together with methods for their measurement. Innovative Assessment for the 21st Century explores the faces of future assessment—and ask hard questions, such as: What would an assessment that captures all of the above attributes look like? Should it be standardized? What is the role of the professional teacher?

Author : Valerie J. Shute,Betsy Jane Becker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 1441965319

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Innovative Assessment for the 21st Century by Valerie J. Shute,Betsy Jane Becker Pdf

In today’s rapidly changing and information-rich world, students are not acquiring adequate knowledge and skills to prepare them for careers in mathematics, science, and technology with the traditional approach to assessment and instruction. New competencies (e.g., information communication and technology skills) are needed to deal successfully with the deluge of data. In order to accomplish this, new "educationally valuable" skills must be acknowledged and assessed. Toward this end, the skills we value and support for a society producing knowledge workers, not simply service workers, must be identified, together with methods for their measurement. Innovative Assessment for the 21st Century explores the faces of future assessment—and ask hard questions, such as: What would an assessment that captures all of the above attributes look like? Should it be standardized? What is the role of the professional teacher?

Author : Alina A. von Davier,Mengxiao Zhu,Patrick C. Kyllonen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319332611

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Innovative Assessment of Collaboration by Alina A. von Davier,Mengxiao Zhu,Patrick C. Kyllonen Pdf

This edited volume provides a platform for experts from various fields to introduce and discuss their different perspectives on the topic of teamwork and collaborative problem solving. It brings together researchers in organizational teaming, educational collaboration, tutoring, simulation, and gaming as well as those involved in statistical and psychometric process modelling. This book seeks to channel this expertise towards advances in the measurement and assessment of cognitive and non-cognitive skills of individuals and teams.

Author : Esther Care,Patrick Griffin,Mark Wilson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319653686

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Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills by Esther Care,Patrick Griffin,Mark Wilson Pdf

This book provides a detailed description of research and application outcomes from the Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills project, which explored a framework for understanding the nature of these skills. The major element of this new volume is the presentation of research information from the global assessment of two 21st century skills that are amenable to teaching and learning: collaborative problem solving, and learning in digital networks. The outcomes presented include evidence to support the validity of assessment of 21st century skills and descriptions of consequent pedagogical approaches which can be used both to teach the skills and to use them to enhance key learning goals in secondary education systems. The sections of the volume are connected through a focus on the degree to which innovative assessment tasks measure the constructs of interest. This focus is informed by conceptual and methodological issues associated with affordances of 21st century computer-based assessment. How understanding of the nature of the skills, as derived from these assessments, can guide approaches to the integration of 21st century skills in the classroom, is informed by initiatives adopted by participating countries. The guiding questions in this volume are: "Do the assessment tasks measure the constructs?" and "What are the implications for assessment and teaching in the classroom?" It is the third volume of papers from this project published by Springer.

Author : Anthony Arundel,Suma Athreye,Sacha Wunsch-Vincent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108842792

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Harnessing Public Research for Innovation in the 21st Century by Anthony Arundel,Suma Athreye,Sacha Wunsch-Vincent Pdf

A guide to maximizing the impact of work done at public research institutions and universities to boost innovation and growth.

Author : Claire Wyatt-Smith,Joy Cumming
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402099649

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Educational Assessment in the 21st Century by Claire Wyatt-Smith,Joy Cumming Pdf

Signs of Change: Assessment Past, Present and Future Another Time, Another Place...Examinations Then and Now In the Temple of Literature in Hanoi, Vietnam, a series of stone stelae records the names of the handful of illustrious examination candidates who, in each century, passed the national examination to become a Doctor of Literature. Beginning in the 11thcentury,theexamswereconductedpersonallybysuccessivekingswhopursued Confucian ideals that found expression in the enormous value placed on the pursuit of wisdom and learning. In the 21st century we are both puzzled and impressed by this tradition. Puzzled by such an explicit commitment to a meritocracy in an essentially feudal society; impressed by this enthusiasm for learning and the pursuit of wisdom at the highest level of society. Yet, there are also important similarities between the 11th and 21st centuries. Then, as now, assessment was associated with excellence, high standards, pr- tige and competition—success for the chosen few; disappointment for the majority. Then, as now, the pursuit of excellence was embedded in a social context that favoured the elite and determined success in terms of the predilections of the p- erful. Then, as now, the purpose of the assessment, the way it was conducted and its impact on society all re ected the social and economic priorities of the day.

Author : Cordelia Bryan,Karen Clegg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134250851

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Innovative Assessment in Higher Education by Cordelia Bryan,Karen Clegg Pdf

Throughout higher education assessment is changing, driven by increased class size, changing curricula and the need to support students better. At the same time assessment regulations and external quality assurance demands are constraining assessment options, driven by worries about standards, reliability and plagiarism. Innovative Assessment in Higher Education explores the difficulty of changing assessment in sometimes unhelpful contexts. Topics discussed include: problems with traditional assessment methods rationales behind different kinds of innovation in assessment complex assessment contexts in which teachers attempt to innovate innovation in assessment within a range of academic settings theoretical and empirical support for innovations within higher education. More than a ‘how to do it’ manual, this book offers a unique mix of useful pragmatism and scholarship. A vital resource for higher education teachers and their educational advisors, it provides a fundamental analysis of the role and purpose of assessment and how change can be managed without compromising standards.

Author : Dr. S. Bella Wiselet and L. Vinila
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359511709

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Innovative Trends in Teacher Education for the 21st Century by Dr. S. Bella Wiselet and L. Vinila Pdf

Author : Lee Crockett,Andrew Churches
Publisher : Solution Tree
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 1942496885

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Mindful Assessment by Lee Crockett,Andrew Churches Pdf

The book provides scenarios, lessons, activities, and assessment rubrics that allow educators to focus assessment on mindfulness and feedback for improvement, framing assessment around six fluencies students need to cultivate.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264205406

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Educational Research and Innovation Leadership for 21st Century Learning by OECD Pdf

This book clarifies the concepts and the dimensions of "learning leadership", relating it to extensive international research and identifying promising strategies to promote it.

Author : Cordelia Bryan,Karen Clegg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429015571

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Innovative Assessment in Higher Education by Cordelia Bryan,Karen Clegg Pdf

Contextualising why assessment is still the single most important factor affecting student learning in higher education, this second edition of Innovative Assessment in Higher Education: A Handbook for Academic Practitioners offers a critical discourse about the value of assessment for learning alongside practical suggestions about how to enhance the student experience of assessment and feedback. With 17 new chapters this edition: contextualises assessment within the current higher education landscape; explores how student, parent and government expectations impact on assessment design; presents case studies on how to develop, incorporate and assess employability skills; reviews how technology and social media can be used to enhance assessment and feedback; provides examples and critical review of the use and development of feedback practices and how to assess professional, creative and performance-based subjects; offers guidance on how to develop assessment that is inclusive and enables all students to advance their potential. Bridging the gap between theory and the practical elements of assessment, Innovative Assessment in Higher Education: A Handbook for Academic Practitioners is an essential resource for busy academics looking to make a tangible difference to their academic practice and their students’ learning. This practical and accessible guide will aid both new and more experienced practitioners looking to learn more about how and why assessment in higher education can make such a difference to student learning.

Author : Winter, Kim K.,Pinter, Holly H.,Watson, Myra K.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781522583547

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Performance-Based Assessment in 21st Century Teacher Education by Winter, Kim K.,Pinter, Holly H.,Watson, Myra K. Pdf

Performance-based assessments can provide an adequate and more direct evaluation of teaching ability. As performance-based assessments become more prevalent in institutions across the United States, there is an opportunity to begin more closely analyzing the impact of standardized performance assessments and the relationship to variables such as success entering the workforce, program re-visioning for participating institutions, and the perceptions and efficacy of teacher candidates themselves. Performance-Based Assessment in 21st Century Teacher Education is a collection of innovative research that explores meaningful and engaging performance-based assessments and its applications and addresses larger issues of assessment including the importance of a balanced approach of assessing knowledge and skills. The book also offers tangible structures for making strong connections between theory and practice and offers advice on how these assessments are utilized as data sources related to preservice teacher performance. While highlighting topics including faculty engagement, online programs, and curriculum mapping, this book is ideally designed for educators, administrators, principals, school boards, professionals, researchers, faculty, and students.

Author : Niki Lambropoulos,Margarida Romero
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Active learning
ISBN : 1634830954

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21st Century Lifelong Creative Learning by Niki Lambropoulos,Margarida Romero Pdf

Information is now available almost instantaneously from multiple locations and diverse perspectives, through different tools and interoperable means, offering an onsite, online and mixed reality environment that facilitates learning more than ever before. Learning is a progression from knowledge acquisition, meaning and signification construction to transferable knowledge, signification, skills and competencies across fields and disciplines with local and global impact. The individual is free from space and time boundaries, flexible and interconnected and able to move without barriers within diverse teams and communities for personal or professional purposes. The 21st century Lifelong Learning program also involves the utilization of new methodologies as well as technologies to promote connectivity and intimacy; the environment needs to be useful and supportive for all. This collective construction of new knowledge, skills and competencies on a global, collective intelligence network, enables creative behaviors which influence everyone in close virtual or physical proximity. This book introduces a matrix of methods, tools and techniques referring to individual, team and wider social skills supporting the realization of one's dream. Individual, small team, social and community skills and actual competences, aided by the ever-present new and emerging technologies, enable and support every learner to expand and thrive on the Lifelong Learning life course.

Author : Hong Jiao,Robert W. Lissitz
Publisher : IAP
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781681239316

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Technology Enhanced Innovative Assessment by Hong Jiao,Robert W. Lissitz Pdf

Assessment innovation tied to technology is greatly needed in a wide variety of assessment applications. This book adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to learn from advances in developing technology enhanced innovative assessments from multiple fields. The book chapters address the development of virtual assessments including game?based assessment, simulation?based assessment, and narrative based assessment as well as how simulation and game based assessments serve both formative and summative purposes. Further, chapters address the critical challenge of integrating assessment directly into the learning process so that teacher effectiveness and student learning can be enhanced. Two chapters specifically address the psychometric challenges related to innovative items. One chapter talks about evaluating the psychometric properties of innovative items while the other chapter presents a new psychometric model for calibrating innovative items embedded in multiple contexts. In addition, validity issues are addressed related to technology enhanced innovative assessment. It is hoped that the book provides readers with rich and useful information about the development of several types of virtual assessments from multiple perspectives. The authors include experts from industry where innovative items have been used for many years and experts from research institutes and universities who have done pioneering work related to developing innovative items with formative applications to facilitate learning. In addition, expert advice has been provided on validating such work.

Author : Dr. Myint Swe Khine
Publisher : IAP
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781641139397

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Contemporary Perspectives on Research in Educational Assessment by Dr. Myint Swe Khine Pdf

Assessment and evaluation have always been an integral part of educational process. Quality and purposeful assessment can assist in students’ learning and their achievement. While there has been a rapid growth in international, standardized student assessments in the past few decades, a large number of education systems participating in these assessments are now focusing their attention on developing new national, within-country assessments to evaluate educational standards and to modify the curriculum to better suit to the demands of the 21st century. Education systems that are successful in linking the national curriculum and assessments directly to international standards are performing better on international standardized assessments of reading, mathematics, and science. This book covers studies related to educational assessment in addressing quality of education and performance improvement. The book presents the distinguished and exemplary works by educators and researchers in the field highlighting the contemporary trends and issues, creative and unique approaches, innovative methods, frameworks, pedagogies and theoretical and practical aspects in assessment processes in various educational settings.