Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills (2012) (Educational Assessment in an Information Age)

Synopsis

Rapid—and seemingly accelerating—changes in the economies of developed nations are having a proportional effect on the skill sets required of workers in many new jobs. Work environments are often technology-heavy, while problems are frequently ill-defined and tackled by multidisciplinary teams. This book contains insights based on research conducted as part of a major international project supported by Cisco, Intel and Microsoft. It faces these new working environments head-on, delineating new ways of thinking about ‘21st-century’ skills and including operational definitions of those skills. The authors focus too on fresh approaches to educational assessment, and present methodological and technological solutions to the barriers that hinder ICT-based assessments of these skills, whether in large-scale surveys or classrooms. Equally committed to defining its terms and providing practical solutions, and including international perspectives and comparative evaluations of assessment methodology and policy, this volume tackles an issue at the top of most educationalists’ agendas.

Copyright:

2012

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9789400723245

Related ISBNs:

9789400723238

Publisher:

Springer Netherlands

Date of Addition:

08/11/22

Copyrighted By:

Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Computers and Internet, Technology, Education

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Patrick Griffin

Edited by:

Barry McGaw

Edited by:

Esther Care