Assessment 2.0: Using Assessment to Enhance 21st c. Learning: Workshop for COJDS-PTI

Delighted to be presenting tonight online for the Consortium of Jewish Day Schools Principal Training Institute.

Guiding Questions:

How can school-leaders use a focus upon assessment to influence improved, 21st century, learning?
What particular types of internal and authentic assessments, classroom-based and school-wide, can best support learning in the 21st century?
What is the role of data collection, using external measurement tools, in instructional leadership?
What external measurement tools are particularly well suited to supporting 21st century learning?

Many links are embedded within the slides above, but for ease of reference, below are some particularly highlighted links.

Suggested Reading:
Internal Assessment:

Understanding by Design- Grant Wiggins
Performance Task Assessment 21k12 post
Taking Teaching to the Task Performance Task article
Demonstrations of Learning, Pat Bassett, NAIS
Open computer Testing: Putting 21st learning to the test. Blog post.

External Assessment:

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan: Assessment 2.0
NY Times article about Duncan’s speech
NAIS article on Value-Added Outcome Measurement
A Guide to Becoming A School of the Future booklet
21k12 Blog post about Duncan’s 2.0 speech
21k12 Blog Post Responding to Alfie Kohn on Turning Kids Into Data

Videos

St. Gregory Teachers Discuss the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP)

St. Gregory Students Discuss CWRA (5 m. version)

St. Gregory Students Discuss CWRA (1.5 m. version)

Isaac Entin Says:

February 15, 2011 at 8:03 pm

Jonathan – thank you! We are making excellent headway with the MAP, and we have already adopted some alternative assessments within our classrooms.

Chaim Helprin Says:

February 15, 2011 at 8:07 pm

I want to thank you for the wonderful presentation you administered tonight to the Consortium of Jewish Day schools. It was enlightening and very informative.

I am very interested in other ways of assessing students. Is there any current way to assess middle school students that you would suggest? Would MAP work well for that age students?

Thanks

Chaim Helprin

21k12