Andreas Schleicher, OECD Director for Education and Skills presents at the OECD webinar "Unleashing potential: Rethinking assessment for 21st century learning" on 13 October 2023. https://oecdedutoday.com/oecd-education-webinars/

1. Rethinking assessment
Andreas Schleicher
13 October 2023
Directorate for Education and Skills, OECD
For 21st century learning

2. The duality of upper secondary certification
Certifications
Orient
learning
that
matters
Upper
secondary
education
Passport
to jobs
and
education
Jobs
HE
Training

3. Depth and breadth
Validity and efficiency
Relevance and reliability
Quality and scale of measurement
Measuring change vs. changing the measures
Comparability vs. specificity
Measuring past achievement vs. future orientation
Some difficult trade-offs

4. Skills, attitudes and values are integrated in many countries’ curricula
Critical thinking
Problem solving
Learning to learn
Co-operation/collaboration
Self-regulation/self-control
Persistence/resilience
Trust
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Skills, attitudes and values for 2030 in curricula
Source: OECD, What Students Learn Matters:
Towards a 21st Century Curriculum, 2020

5. There has been a slight increase in the variety of tasks upper secondary
examinations use
OECD countries using each type of task, 2015-2023
In mathematics, natural sciences and reading, writing and literature in upper secondary education
Notes: Colombia, Costa Rica, Latvia and Lithuania are not included on the 2015 figure.
Source: OECD (2015, 2023)
-3
2
7
12
17
22
1: Multiple
choice
2: Closed-format
short answer
questions
3: Open-ended
writing tasks
4: Portfolio 5: Performing a
task/experiment
6: Oral
presentation
7: Oral questions
and answers
8: Other
2015 2023

6. More countries are making use of computer-based technologies
Notes: Colombia, Costa Rica, Latvia and Lithuania are not included on the 2015 figure.
Source: OECD (2015, 2023)
Number of OECD countries using computer-based technology per subject
Upper secondary examinations
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Mathematics Reading, writing and literature Natural sciences
2015 2023

7. Assessing transversal skills: often about experiencing, rather than performing
Practices for assessing, documenting and monitoring social and emotional skills as part of upper secondary
certification, review of 12 jurisdictions, 2023
Source: Assessing, Documenting, and Recognising Social and Emotional Skills (Forthcoming – OECD, 2023)
Outside the classroom Inside the classroom
Assessed
implicitly
Assessed
explicitly
systems make participating in co-
curricular activities that build these skills
part of certification requirements
5
systems have created specific
transversal subjects for these skills
5
systems make student self-reflection
on specific skills part of certification
9
systems collect student self-
reflection in co-curricular activities
7
Finland
Canada
(British
Columbia)
France
United
States
Mandatory community
service requirement
"International"
requirement for
global competency
Mandatory civics
course in
baccalauréat
Korea Colombia
Student-designed
"Creative Experiential
Learning" project
Restorative
Educational Justice
guided volunteer
work
Student self-reflection
on core competencies
3x year

11. Importance of a coordinated assessment system
Large-scale
assessments to
produce system-level
data for policymakers Digital, formative
assessment and learning
tools to produce in-time
feedback for teachers
and students
Alignment between summative
and formative
• Shared competency-based
frameworks (e.g. creative thinking,
computational problem solving)
• Data-driven feedback adapted to the
needs of different audiences
• Classroom-level experimentation
and teacher feedback (through PILA)
inform innovation in large-scale
assessment (in PISA)

12. How will students demonstrate their
learning skills?
• Interact with an
intelligent tutor to get
help when they are stuck
• Reflect on their achievements
during the assessment
Students will also…

13. What can we learn from these assessments about education systems?
Measure of learning gain =
Score on LDW test after accounting for pre-test score
Baseline measure of
students’ prior
knowledge
Information on student learning
Tutorial
Pre-test
Learning
Activities Challenge

14. Profiles of self-regulated learners
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Percentage
of
students
Student learning profiles
Country A Country B Country C
Engagement
Progress
monitoring
Self-
evaluation
Transfer
Persistence
Country A
Country B
What can we learn from these assessments about education systems?