21st Century Skills Assessment Tools. It has also been the inspiration for innofactor s skilli a continuous assessment tool in the cloud developed to help teachers and students with their new responsibilities and ways of working. The 21st century skills assessment uses a psychometrically validated blend of interactive performance based questions that allow students to authentically perform complex tasks in simulated applications and multiple choice knowledge based questions.
The first section of the chapter focuses on methods used by some large corporations to assess the 21st century skills of current employees and job applicants. If you are looking for support with teaching 21 st century skills 21 st century learning design 21 cld a research framework that microsoft helped develop is a great place to start. Creativity innovation information fluency critical thinking decision making and digital citizenship.
The p21 report on assessment of 21 st century skills honey et al 2005 outlines the objectives that an idea l form of assessment should fulfil.
Examples of 21st century assessment for learning tools which include both diagnostic tests and formative assessments are eportfolios teacher observations class discussions and works in progress with comments think pair share journals observation checklists concept maps and rubrics. How to design a 21st century assessment by mike fisher this post has been updated and republished contemporary curriculum design involves multiple facets. Getting these design elements into a teacher s current curriculum demands that teachers create professional habits. Creativity innovation information fluency critical thinking decision making and digital citizenship.
