Assessment Design for Broader, Deeper Competencies (MyWays Report 12)
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Educators are rethinking the purposes, forms, and nature of assessment. Beyond testing mastery of traditional content knowledge—an essential task, but not nearly sufficient—educators are designing assessment for learning as an integral part of the learning process.
This report presents the evolution toward greater authenticity and multiple measures, and recommends the use of Five Assessment Strategies: Formative assessment, Performance assessment, Multiple measures, Badges & micro-credentials, and Quality reviews. The report also surveys the emerging state of assessment within each of the MyWays domains, as well as offering resources to support initial moves toward implementation. (October 2017, 4MB)
Report 12 is the second of two reports in Part C of the MyWays Student Success Series. Part C, “Redesigning the Learning Experience for the MyWays Competencies,” explores how to bring the broader and deeper competencies of the MyWays Student Success Framework into educational practice, focusing on key constructs for learning design and assessment design.
The MyWays Student Success Series examines the through-line of four essential questions for next generation learning and provides research and practice-based support to help school designers and educators to answer these questions. The series consists of 12 reports organized into three parts, plus a Visual Summary and Introduction and Overview. For more on MyWays, visit myways.nextgenlearning.org