Transcript of Working towards the 21st century student assessment
- 1. Assessment
- 2. What is the best form of 21st Century Assessment? Real
tasks, often collaborative, involving higher order thinking. Clear
and transparent with the student, their peers and teacher involved
in the process.
- 3. Students have grown up online Learning tasks must be
relevant to motivate students. Rich media: blogs, videos, and
comics are suitable to engage higher order thinking processes to
plan, design, create and present their work
- 4. A well structured examination will assess higher order
thinking Some examinations only test lower order thinking skills.
The keywords associated with lower order thinking (Bloom's
Taxonomy) eg state, identify, describe, discuss and explain
- 5. Examinations should also include: compare, evaluate, review,
design, devise, plan and develop. 21ST CENTURY ASSESSMENTS MUST
INCLUDE HIGHER ORDER THINKING; STUDENTS MUST BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND,
REMEMBER AND APPLY.
- 6. Students constantly collaborate and communicateStudents
spend much of their time: texting, micro-blogging on Facebook and
Twitter. Develop their fluency with social media; working
collaboratively on real life projects
- 7. Collaboration is not a 21st century skill - it is a 21st
century essential 1) learning to do, and 2) learning to be 3)
learning to know
- 8. Group Assessment The question of objective contribution has
been raised as a reason not to do collaborative assessments. Self
and peer assessment can overcome these issues.
- 9. Feedback is essential to the learning process. Without
timely feedback, assessment is not a learning activity, it is a
compliance task.
- 10. Peer assessment reinforces the importance of collaboration.
Reflecting via micro-blog on the days learning allows the student
to: reflect on decisions-ideas and plan for future actions.
REFLECTIVE PRACTICE IS A POWERFUL TOOL FOR TEACHERS AND
STUDENTS.
- 11. Taking all factors into consideration: real world tasks,
higher order thinking, collaboration, timely feedback, and
self-peer assessment that are focused on the learning outcomes
rather compliance; will naturally produce a formula for the 21st
Century Assessment
- 12. VENSOUNDS.COM
http://www.benwilbrink.nl/publicaties/97AssessmentStEE.htm
http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/site/battles/1072
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+Digital+Taxonomy By Linda
Buckmaster, Class Act II