1. Authentic Assessment in the 21st Century October 10, 2014

2. Discussion of learning in the 21st century must begin with discussion of digital technology. What does technology use look like for today’s children?

4. Question 1: If immersion in technology is everyday life for today’s children, what are the key skills you believe young people will need for the 21st century?

5. Digital Technology has significantly altered society. Living in today’s world requires a new kind of competence, which must be reflected in school curricula. New competence requires new kinds of assessment to provide evidence that students are developing new skills.

6. What are the 21st century skills? ●Dozens of frameworks have been developed to explain what 21st century students must know and do. ●In the U.S., one of the most common was designed by The Partnership for 21st Century Skills (http://www.p21.org/)http://www.p21.org/ ●According to P21, American students still need a foundation in core subjects, but also must develop new skills ○ Life and career skills ○ Learning and innovation skills (critical thinking, communication, collaboration, & creativity) ○ Information, media, & technology skills

7. ● collaboration ● communication ● digital literacy (including information literacy and technology literacy) ● citizenship ● problem-solving ● critical thinking ● creativity ● productivity *List developed by Voogt, J., Erstad. O., Dede, C., & Mishra, P. (2013). Challenges to learning and schooling in the digital networked world of the 21 st century. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 29(5), 403-413. doi: 10.1111/jcal.12029 List of Key Skills for the 21st Century*

8. Question 2: How are these 21st century skills already embedded in what you are doing in your classroom?

10. Question 3: Think about your grade level or content area. How are these 21st century skills represented in the Common Core Standards you are working with? Question 4: Are there any skills missing from your standards?

11. The Common Core claims to be aligned with 21st century goals, but high stakes assessments are not. WHY NOT?

12. Why isn’t the MEAP/MME aligned with 21st century skills? ● The questioning strategies of high stakes assessments have changed very little for nearly a century (All we’ve done is used computers to manage the process) ● The MEAP/MME primarily addresses only one branch of the 21st century map: content knowledge. Because it’s easy to score! ● The MEAP/MME is a summative assessment, not a formative assessment. Assessing 21st century skills requires more formative assessment.

13. Summative ● At a pre-determined time ● Purpose: Judge competence after instruction (a SUMmary) ● Encourages extrinsic motivation (a performance orientation) ● Provides accountability 2 Types of Assessment Formative ●On-going throughout teaching & learning ●Purpose: Improve instruction, change learning strategies (FORMing instruction & learning) ●Encourages intrinsic motivation (a learning orientation) ●Provides potential for measuring real understanding Zacharis, N. (2010). Innovative assessment for learning enhancement: Issues and practices. Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 3(1), 61-69.

14. What is effective assessment? Video

15. How do you design good assessment? Wiggins, G., & McTighe, J. (1998). Chapter 1: What is backward design? In Understanding by Design. Retrieved from https://www.fitnyc.edu/files/pdfs/Bac kward_design.pdf

16. 1.Select a branch on the 21st century skills map 2. In your grade/content area ● What would you want students to know/do? ● What would be the evidence you’d look at to see they can know/do it? ● What learning activities & instruction would produce the evidence you want? Assessment Design Activity

17. Ideas for Assessing 21st Century Skills

18. References Binkley, M., Erstad, O., Herman, J., Raizen, S., Ripley, M., Miler-Ricci, M., & Rumble, M. (2011). Defining twenty-first century skills. In P. Griffin, B. McGraw, & E. Care (Eds.), Assessment and teaching of 21 st century skills (pp.17-66). New York: Springer. Boyles, T. (2012). 21st Century Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities and Entrepreneurial Competencies: A Model for Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Education. Journal of Entrepreneurship Education 15: 42–55 Common Sense Media (2013). Zero to eight: Children’s media use in America 2013. Retrieved from http://www.commonsensemedia.org/zero- to-eight-2013-infographic http://www.commonsensemedia.org/zero- to-eight-2013-infographic Greenstein, L. (2012). Assessing 21 st century skills: A guide to evaluating mastery and authentic learning. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. Redecker, C., & Johannessen, O. (2013). Changing assessment: Towards a new assessment paradigm using ICT. European Journal of Education, 48(1), 79-96. doi: 10.1111/ejed.12018 Voogt, J., Erstad. O., Dede, C., & Mishra, P. (2013). Challenges to learning and schooling in the digital networked world of the 21 st century. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 29(5), 403-413. doi: 10.1111/jcal.12029 Wiggins, G., & McTighe, J. (1998). Chapter 1: What is backward design? In Understanding by Design. Retrieved from https://www.fitnyc.edu/files/pdfs/Backward_design.pdf