Bucks County 2011
This page contains resources from my work with the Bucks County (PA) Intermediate Unit. These materials are made available under a Creative Commons 3.0 attribution-share alike license, which means that you are both allowed and encouraged to use them! Please contact me if you have any comments or questions about these resources.
October 6, 2011 [webinar]
The future of assessment. Societal transformations, digital technologies, and politics are beginning to impact the ways in which we think about student assessment. A variety of different trends are occurring, including personalization, technology mediation, gaming/simulations, and assessment of higher order thinking skills.
** My landing page for educators and parents **
Lower-level thinking skills
- Data-driven education resources
- Clickers
- Adaptive testing / IRT
- Learning software (e.g., AIMSWeb or Achieve3000)
- Classroom-based continuous / diagnostic assessment
- School data tutorials
Higher-order thinking skills
- College and Work Readiness Assessment (see sample task)
- Rhode Island
- Essay-grading software
- iCritical Thinking
- The power of gaming and simulations (from What Video Games Have To Teach Us About Learning and Literacy)
- Y Science Laboratories
- Conspiracy Code
- Virtual Performance Assessment Project
- School of One
Schools and centers that are doing problem-based learning, authentic intellectual work, etc.
- Center for Authentic Intellectual Work
- Buck Institute for Education (videos; student testimony and teacher restructuring; technology and PBL)
- College and Work Readiness Assessment (example report)
- Whitfield Career Academy (example projects)
- Discovery and Unlimited (Christchurch, New Zealand)
- Big Picture Learning (podcasts and videos; student testimony and personalization)
- EdVisions (videos; traditional v. self-directed students)
- Envision Schools (PBL in action and success story)
- Expeditionary Learning (stories)
- New Tech Network (videos; solar oven)
- CASTLE’s list of exemplary 21st century schools
Additional readings and resources
- Connecting your classrooms to others across the globe
- Using technology to personalize learning and assess students in real-time
- Beyond the bubble: Technology and the future of student assessment
- ICT and the early grade reading assessment
- Assessment around the world
- The Flat World and Education (Chapter 6)
Resources