Innovative Assessment for the 21st Century

This book helps identify skills we value and support for a society that
produces knowledge workers, rather than service workers. Facing the future of assessment, the authors present these together with innovative and effective methods for their measurement.

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 assessmentand 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?

Presents innovations in assessment from a variety of perspectives Focus on innovative ideas to overcome barriers in current assessment practices Focus on: authentic assessment in contextualized environment, evidence-centered assessment design; role of teachers Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Klappentext
Innovative Assessment for the 21st Century Supporting Educational Needs Valerie Shute and Betsy Becker, editors Assessment continues to take center stage in contemporary education, not merely for the data themselves, but for what they can tell us about students and their instructorsand even more important, about educational domains that need upgrading. Success in the technology-driven modern world increasingly depends on new competencies (many of which have yet to be fully identified), requiring new methods for their accurate measurement. Innovative Assessment for the 21st Century asks readers to rethink the way assessment is conducted and competencies are defined, placing the process in the context of lifelong learning across subject domains. This forward-looking dialogue between contributors in education research, practice, and policy examines a range of specific assessment issues, technologies to address these needs, and larger policy concerns. Chapters focus on the most pressing goals and challenges facing the field today, including: • Using assessment to strengthen learning. • Recognizing the natural role of assessment in everyday life. • Creating an assessment culture in the schools. • Improving assessment through evidence-based methods. • Assessing competencies based in new media and technologies. • Making assessment relevant to students and faculty. Innovative Assessment for the 21st Century is a finely detailed blueprint for researchers in education and cognition, as well as for psychometricians in private and government agencies.

Inhalt
Prelude: Assessment for the 21st Century.- Human Action and Social Groups as the Natural Home of Assessment: Thoughts on 21st Century Learning and Assessment.- Growing Learning and Assessment in the 21st Century.- Aiming at Learning: Assessment as the Critical Link.- Sharpening the Aim: Making Strides to Create an Assessment Culture in Schools.- Using Evidence Centered Design to Think About Assessments.- Thinking About Assessments in a Transitional Time.- Participatory Assessment of 21st Century Proficiencies.- Making Assessment Relevant to Students, Teachers, and Schools.- Automated Essay Scoring in a High Stakes Testing Environment.- Assessing Change in Learners' Causal Understanding Using Sequential Analysis and Causal Maps.- Development and Use of a Tool for Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness in Grades K-12.- Epilogue: Achieving Quality 21st Century Assessment.