The document explores the concept of openness in educational assessment, emphasizing the need for diverse assessment methods that reflect students' real-life experiences and cultural backgrounds. It highlights the limitations of traditional assessments in a globalized economy and argues for assessments that foster social cohesion and accommodate cultural diversity. The text also underscores the evolving demands of the labor market for procedural knowledge and the importance of integrating these changes into educational practices.

1. Openness and educational assessment XiaoyuLuDecember 2010

2. Educational assessment is judgement or evaluation about performance and achievement in learning.

3. Openness in assessment is utilizing a variety of assessment forms in students’ learning.

4. Forms of assessment

5. ● Forms of assessment include journal assignment, presentation, portfolios, performance tasks, authentic samples.

6. ● They are called alternative or authentic assessments which relate to students’ real-life or hand-on experiences.

7. ● Alternative assessment emerged from economic development and cultural globalization.

8. Labour market and openness

9. ● Significance of knowledge is recognized by labour market andreflected by the changes of requirement in employment.

10. ● Procedural knowledge has to be addressed through educational assessment system.

11. ● Traditional assessment shows limitations in knowledge economic.

12. Openness and multicultural society

13. ● Education has a role of integrating cultural diversity and fostering social cohesion.

14. ● Openness is about offering a range of options within a syllabus to reflect students’ diverse interests.

15. ● Openness allows students to represent their cultural values and beliefs.

16. ●Traditional assessment offers limited space for cultural minorities to articulate and legitimate their own diverse cultural and historical meanings .

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