Real-World Assessments, Personalized Learning
It’s time to make 21st century learning the standard in all classrooms. Performance assessments are associated with increases in teachers’ expectations and student achievement; automated scoring provides near-instant feedback that helps students to target their efforts and teachers to plan appropriate lessons.
Current Research Project
Assessment as a Learning Tool
The Center is exploring ways to provide students with immediate, continuous feedback on their writing, reading, and math performance during instruction. For example, our researchers are currently working with a school district in Georgia to develop scenario-based performance tasks that integrate standards from multiple content areas, such as math and social studies, and can be scored automatically.
Featured Blog
21st Century Skills: What Are They?
Posted by Emily Lai
What are 21st Century Skills? Several organizations have developed their own frameworks for 21CS. Although these frameworks don’t necessarily use the same terms to describe the skills, there appears to be a great deal of overlap in the types of broad skill categories included... Read More
Developing Collaborative Problem Solving Skills: The Animalia Global Project
Posted by Yigal Rosen
There seems to be wide agreement that the global workplace of the future will require skills beyond those taught and assessed in most schools today. One area of particular importance is collaborative problem solving... Read More
A Call for a Judgement-Free Approach to Predicting Item Demands
Posted by Yasmine El Masri
When subjects are taught and assessed in multiple languages, a teacher or a researcher, like me, has to ask the obvious questions: Are the questions of the same difficulty? Or is one version more difficult than the other one?
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