Spotlight on Assessment and 21st Century Skills: Moving Beyond AYP

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Spotlight on Assessment and 21st Century Skills
Moving Beyond AYP
Partnership for 21st Century Skills CoSN K-12
School Networking Conference Washington,
D.C. March 10, 2008
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Overview

• Who is the Partnership and what is the Framework
  for 21st Century Skills?
• Formative Assessment of 21st century skills
• Summative Assessment of 21st century skills
• The Maine Experience
• The North Carolina Experience

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P21 Members
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Who is the Partnership?
A unique partnership between business, education
and policymakers
With support from the U.S. Department of
Education
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Overview

• Who is the Partnership and what is the Framework
  for 21st Century Skills?
• Formative Assessment of 21st century skills
• Summative Assessment of 21st century skills
• The Maine Experience
• The North Carolina Experience

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20th Century Education Model
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21st Century Skills Framework
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21st Century Skills Framework

• Core Subjects
• Economics
• English
• Government
• Arts
• History
• Geography
• Reading or Language
• Arts
• Mathematics
• Science
• World Languages
• Civics

• 21st Century Themes
• - Global Awareness
• - Financial, Economic, Business
• Entrepreneurship Literacy
• - Civic Literacy
• - Health Literacy

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21st Century Skills Framework

• Learning Innovation Skills
• Critical Thinking Problem Solving
• Creativity Innovation
• Communication Collaboration

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21st Century Skills Framework

• Information, Media Technology Skills
• Information Literacy
• Media Literacy
• ICT (Information, Communications
• Technology) Literacy

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21st Century Skills Framework

• Life Career Skills
• Flexibility Adaptability
• Initiative Self-Direction
• Social Cross-Cultural Skills
• Productivity Accountability
• Leadership Responsibility

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21st Century Skills Framework

• Learning Innovation Skills
• Critical Thinking Problem Solving
• Creativity Innovation
• Communication Collaboration

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21st Century Skills Framework

How do I learn more about 21st century skills?
www.21stcenturyskills.org/route21
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Overview

• Who is the Partnership and what is the Framework
  for 21st Century Skills?
• Formative Assessment of 21st century skills
• Summative Assessment of 21st century skills
• The Maine Experience
• The North Carolina Experience

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Formative Assessment

• What is Formative Assessment?
• It is a process used by teachers and students
  during instruction that provides feedback to
  adjust ongoing teaching and learning to improve
  students achievement of intended outcomes.
• -- CCSSO

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Formative Assessment
What does it look like in the classroom?

• Clarifying and sharing learning intentions and
  criteria for success
• Engineering effective classroom discussions,
  questions and learning tasks that elicit evidence
  of learning
• Providing feedback that moves learning forward
• Activating students as the owners of their own
  learning
• Activating students as instructional resources
  for one another
• Classroom Assessment Minute by Minute, Day by
  Day Leahy, Lyon, Thompson, Wiliam. 2005.

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Formative Assessment

• Issues
• Definitional Issues
• Gray areas
• Grading
• Teacher Time

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Formative Assessment

• Partnership for 21st Century Skills White Paper
  on Assessment

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Formative Assessment
Partnership for 21st Century Skills White Paper
on Assessment

• P21 Paper
• Focus on 21st century skills
• Make thinking visible,
• structured, real time, authentic
• Data used to inform instruction
• Build capacity of teachers
• and students

• F. A. Characteristics
• in Literature
• Clarifying learning intensions/
• criteria (standards)
• Rich information, elicit
• evidence of learning, during
• learning
• Feedback to advance
• learning
• Process used by teachers
• and students, activating
• students

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Formative Assessment

• What Teachers Need
• Good assessment skills
• Pedagogical content knowledge
• Professional development

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Formative Assessment

• Why is formative assessment so important for 21st
  century skills?
• Impact on performance
• Greater authenticity possible

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Formative Assessment

• Additional Comments
• External resources
• Tools in white paper
• Technology
• Capabilities for formative assessment
• 21st century technology skills

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Overview

• Who is the Partnership and what is the Framework
  for 21st Century Skills?
• Formative Assessment of 21st century skills
• Summative Assessment of 21st century skills
• The Maine Experience
• The North Carolina Experience

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Summative Assessment

• PISA
• Competition is global.
• Internationally we are being held to different
  standards.
• PISA is an assessment that is looking toward the
  future. It is rooted in labor market demands.
• Basic skills are necessary, but not sufficient.

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Summative Assessment
Source Levy F. and R.J. Murnane (2004) The New
Division of Labor How Computers are Creating the
Next Labor Market. Princeton, N.J. Princeton
University Press
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Summative Assessment

• Developing large scale 21st century assessments
  is challenging
• Expensive government investment in innovation
  is essential (enhanced assessment grants).
• Test development is bound by disciplinary
  conventions.
• The status quo tends to drive much of what is
  done.

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Summative Assessment

• Innovation is possible and essential
• Assessments drive learning
• States reframing of standards and RFP process
• Vendors can innovate and so can the government..

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Summative Assessment
E-assessment migration vs. transformation
Radical innovation
Computer-based
Paper-based
No innovation
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Summative Assessment

• Collegiate Learning Assessment Council for Aid to
  Education
• Performance tasks
• Critical thinking
• Analytic reasoning
• Problem solving
• Written communication

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ASIAN TIGER MOSQUITO Question 1 and Document
Library Contents
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ASIAN TIGER MOSQUITO Experiment Pictures
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MYTHS Brueghel Painting
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ETS - iSkills
Summative Assessment

• High school and college
• Competencies Define, Access, Evaluate, Manage,
  Integrate, Create, Communicate
• Content Topics Humanities, Social Science,
  Practical Affairs, Popular Culture, Natural
  Sciences
• Technology Topics - Communication and Research
  Tools, Database Management, Productivity Tools

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Summative Assessment

www.21stcenturyskills.org/Route21
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Overview

• Who is the Partnership and what is the Framework
  for 21st Century Skills?
• Formative Assessment of 21st century skills
• Summative Assessment of 21st century skills
• The Maine Experience
• The North Carolina Experience

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Maine Experience

• Elements of classroom assessment
• Self-assessment
• Goal setting
• Setting criteria

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21st Century Assessment
Maine Experience

• Criteria based assessments.
• What counts in the work?
• Engagement of students in reflection of learning
  increased learning.
• Show evidence of learning
• Use wikis, video and digital
• story-telling

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Feedback
Maine Experience

• Peer conferences, peer editing
• Project work with scientists, writers,
  journalists, architects and town planners
• MEA constructed responses/ETS pilot

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Maine Experience

• Keep the
• Focus on Learning

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Overview

• Who is the Partnership and what is the Framework
  for 21st Century Skills?
• Formative Assessment of 21st century skills
• Summative Assessment of 21st century skills
• The Maine Experience
• The North Carolina Experience

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North Carolina Experience

• North Carolina Computer Skills Test
• Physics End-of-Course (online test)
• Biology End-of-Course (true 21st century
  assessment)

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NCDesk
North Carolina Experience

• The application suite designed to provide an
  interface to the North Carolina Online Test of
  Computer Skills.
• NCDesk is a collection of small Java programs
  that replicate common applications, plus a test
  interface and a test simulation used to
  understand how the test will work.
• The NCDesk programs perform a limited set of
  functions and can be used externally from the
  test and test simulation.

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North Carolina Experience
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North Carolina Experience

• Online EOC Physics Test
• 84 multiple choice tests
• Administered online
• No longer than 4 hours

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North Carolina Experience
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Biology EOC PFL
North Carolina Experience

• PFL Preparation for Future Learning multimedia
  instructional technology

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Challenge
North Carolina Experience

• Develop a multimedia product that can assess
  students content knowledge as well as their
  mastery of 21st century skills.
• Provide students the opportunity to use
  information as adults do in their jobs/lives.
• Provide formative and summative feedback to
  students while they simultaneously learn new
  information and develop new skills.
• Help students learn while they are being assessed
  so that no instructional time is lost to testing.

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North Carolina Experience

• Design/research team headed by John Bransford
  (University of Washington)
• Based on NC Standard Course of Study content
  natural selection/genetic traits
• Augmented classroom instruction with multimedia
  content to expand student understanding of core
  content

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North Carolina Experience

• http//www.ncpublicschools.org/accountability/
• testing/computerskills/
• http//cuacs8.mck.ncsu.edu/ncdesk/

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Conclusion

• We need 21st century assessments.

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Conclusion
We need a balance of formative and summative
assessments of 21st century skills.
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Contact Us
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85701 [phone]
www.21stcenturyskills.org