My Slides for Assessing 21st Century Skills Online session at iNACOL 2013

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Assessing
Century Skills Online
Andrew Miller
@betamiller
andrew@andrewkmiller.com

3. Your Need to Knows
• Our Driving Question:
• How do we assess 21
Online?
st
Century Skills

4. • By the end of this session, we
will:
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Clarify 21st Century Skills
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Examine Sample Methods to
Assess 21st Century Skills
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Examine Sample Rubrics
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Uncover where
Century
Skills are embedded in the
Common Core

7. =
“The What”

8. “The standards stress not only procedural skill but
also conceptual understanding, to make sure
students are learning and absorbing the critical
information they need to succeed at higher levels rather than the current practices by which many
students learn enough to get by on the next
test, but forget it shortly thereafter, only to review
again the following year.”

9. • Creativity
• Collaboration
• Critical Thinking
• Communication
• Technology Literacy
• and more...

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Grade 9-10 Reading Informational - Delineate and
evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text,
assessing whether the reasoning is valid and the
evidence is relevant and sufficient; identify false
statements and fallacious reasoning.
Grade 9-10 Speaking and Listening - Initiate and
participate effectively in a range of collaborative
discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacherled) with diverse partners on grades 9–10 topics,
texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and
expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

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Grade 3 S
peaking and Listening - Engage effectively in a range
of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and
teacher- led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts,
building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
Grade 9-10 S
peaking and Listening - Initiate and participate
effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-onone, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on
grades 9–10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas
and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

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4th Grade Reading - Interpret information
presented visually, orally, or quantitatively
(e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams,
demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g.,
time lines, animations, or interactive
elements on Web pages) …
8th Grade Writing - Use technology,
including the Internet, to produce and
publish …
11th Grade Speaking and Listening - Make
strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual,
graphical, audio, visual, and interactive
elements) in presentations…

13. Mathematical Practices
Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving
them.
Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning
of others.
Model with mathematics.
Use appropriate tools strategically.
Attend to precision.
Look for and make use of structure.
Look for and express regularity in
repeated
reasoning.

14. “Real Life” Math
7 RP - Analyze proportional relationships and use
them to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
7G-S
olve real-life and mathematical problems
involving angle measure, area, surface area, and
volume
8 G - Understand congruence and similarity using
physical models, transparencies, or geometry
software.
7 BF - Build a function that models a relationship
between two quantities
G MG - Apply geometric concepts in modeling
situations

16. One School. How does this assess 21st Century Skills?
What can we learn from their story?

18. Think
Share
Assessment Tools: What assessment tools do you
already use in your classroom to assess content?

21. Oral Interview

22. Graphic Organizer

23. Presentation

24. Peer Review

25. Product

26. Reflection

27. Quiz

28. Journal

29. Performance
Assessment

30. Rubric

31. www.tinyurl.com/21rubric
s

32. 21st Century Skills Rubrics. What do you notice when you
examine these rubrics? How does it challenge or affirm your
work to assess 21st Century Skills?

33. Disaggregated Data

34. Clear Criteria

35. Avoid Confusion

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