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Performance assessments may not be 'reliable' or 'valid.' So what? | Dangerou... - 0 views

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  • Most of us recognize that more of our students need to be doing deeper, more complex thinking work more often. But if we want students to be critical thinkers and problem solvers and effective communicators and collaborators, that cognitively-complex work is usually more divergent rather than convergent. It is more amorphous and fuzzy and personal. It is often multi-stage and multimodal. It is not easily reduced to a number or rating or score. However, this does NOT mean that kind of work is incapable of being assessed. When a student creates something – digital or physical (or both) – we have ways of determining the quality and contribution of that product or project. When a student gives a presentation that compels others to laugh, cry, and/or take action, we have ways of identifying what made that an excellent talk. When a student makes and exhibits a work of art – or sings, plays, or composes a musical selection – or displays athletic skill – or writes a computer program – we have ways of telling whether it was done well. When a student engages in a service learning project that benefits the community, we have ways of knowing whether that work is meaningful and worthwhile. When a student presents a portfolio of work over time, we have ways of judging that. And so on…
  • If we continue to insist on judging performance assessments with the ‘validity’ and ‘reliability’ criteria traditionally used by statisticians and psychometricians, we never – NEVER – will move much beyond factual recall and procedural regurgitation to achieve the kinds of higher-level student work that we need more of.
  • “What score should we give the Mona Lisa? And what would the ‘objective’ rating criteria be?”
  • joyce L on 06 Jul 14
     
    "Most of us recognize that more of our students need to be doing deeper, more complex thinking work more often. But if we want students to be critical thinkers and problem solvers and effective communicators and collaborators, that cognitively-complex work is usually more divergent rather than convergent. It is more amorphous and fuzzy and personal. It is often multi-stage and multimodal. It is not easily reduced to a number or rating or score. However, this does NOT mean that kind of work is incapable of being assessed. "
  • Hsiao-yun Chan on 22 Nov 14
     
    What I'm not sure people realise is that at some point reliability and validity can become mutually exclusive. The author describes a situation where reliability has triumphed over validity, which is very wrong, as any psychometrician can tell you.
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Exploring Alternative Visions in Assessing Informal Learning Environments | DML Hub - 0 views

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  • Hsiao-yun Chan on 06 Nov 13
     
    "In general, there are more and more systematic studies of behavior and performance that are minimally disruptive to the informal activity but also allow for documentation of what kinds of participation occur and capacities get put to use in a learning environment, and also what types of choices follow from experience. Ethnography can be used to demonstrate how a type of learning environment or system works, what kinds of outcomes follow from participation. "
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For the Common Core, A Different Sort of Benchmark - Top Performers - Education Week - 0 views

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  • Hsiao-yun Chan on 05 Sep 14
     
    The outstanding examples in the Concord Review are useful, but so too is work that is not outstanding-after all, students are much better at spotting weakness in other people's work than in their own, and when they see weaknesses in others' work, they are less likely to reproduce such weaknesses in their own.
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Assessing 21st century skills | Dangerously Irrelevant - 0 views

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  • The Partnership for 21st Century Skills notes that answering the question ‘How do we measure 21st century learning?’ will be critical as we try to prepare students who can be productive citizens in the new technology-suffused, globally-interconnected economy.
  • Like these early attempts, most of these assessments will be performance-based and thus will avoid some of the objections we hear about current standardized tests. Most, if not all, also will utilize the multimedia, simulation, and tracking power of digital technologies to create more authentic assessments of real-life task
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