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Assessment BY LINDA BUCKMASTER CLASS ACT II

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  1. 1. Assessment
  2. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 9. Feedback is essential to the learning process. Without timely feedback, assessment is not a learning activity, it is a compliance task.
  10. 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. 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. 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