Assessment in the 21st Century
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What is Literacy in the 21st Century? Project based learning with some direct instruction Production Driven content creation of knowledge and skills Research Based Active Collaborative student centered/learner Driven Student Freedom Integrated and interdisciplinary
How does assessment fit into the 21st Century model of literacy? Supports a balance of assessments, including high quality standardized testing along with effective classroom formative and summative assessment. Emphasizes useful feedback on student performance that is embedded into everyday learning Requires a balance of technology-enhanced, formative and summative assessments that measure student mastery of 21st century skills Enables development of portfolios of student work that demonstrate mastery of 21st century skills to educators and prospective employers Enables a balanced portfolio of measures to assess the educational system’s effectiveness at reaching high levels of student competency in 21st century skills
In addition...for me...it should also be... interactive/collaborative student centered/learner driven active standards based pleasantly frustrating risk taking smart tools
A few thoughts to start guide us towards creative assessment. Biologically, the necessary order of learning is: explore, then play, then add rigor. Clark Aldrich - Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know About Schools and Rediscover Education And we want tests to work so badly. We love the idea of a simple-to- deploy, objective mechanism that can sort, motivate, and diagnose— the equivalent of quality control at a car manufacturing plant looking for defects. Clark Aldrich - Unschooling Rules: 55 Ways to Unlearn What We Know About Schools and Rediscover Education
Start with the standards... What do the students need to know and be able to do? How will they show you they know and can do it?
iCreate iMovie Animoto Portfolios Multi-Genre Projects Prezi etc.
For example: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place: how it sets formal or informal tone). From the Common Core LA standards for 9th grade.
A student’s analysis of a poem using iMovie and Garage Band
Letting Students Choose the Format
Multi-Genre Projects
End of Quarter/Semester/Year Assessment
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