Middle & High School – Page 6

How To Design A 21st Century Assessment

21st century assessment design involves using digital tools, collaborating with others, performance tasks, and more.

When helping students design projects, I provide these kinds of prompts to help students see how texts, apps, and more can all work together.

Quality assessments seek to learn: what knowledge will I gain about my students’ mastery levels of standards by their answers to questions?

Understanding promotes the spontaneous, personal, and creative application of understanding in dynamic physical and digital environments.

Using the right question at the right time can not evaluate understanding but can help students think about what they think.

Like anything else in your classroom, promoting critical thinking skills is a matter of planning, priority, and practice.

The function of this image is to help get your own creative juices going to decide what’s most important when designing authentic PBL units.

The idea of actually using Wikipedia to explicitly teach research for an entire unit is less common than its use for researching credibility.