1. Assessment

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Feedback is
essential to the
learning process.
Without timely feedback,
assessment is not a
learning activity, it is a
compliance task.

10. Peer assessment
reinforces the
importance of
collaboration.
Reflecting via micro-blog on the
day’s 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. 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. 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