netp2.0assessment


 * NETP 2.0 Assessment**

2.0 Assessment Our education system at all levels will leverage the power of technology to measure what matters and use assessment data for continuous improvement. To meet this goal, we recommend the following actions:

2.1 Design, develop, and adopt assessments that give students, educators, and other stakeholders timely and actionable feedback about student learning to improve achievement and instructional practices.
 * We need to move beyond % scores and scaled scores as the only measure of growth
 * Marzano's assessment work needs to be implemented
 * Assessment must include measures of critical thinking and creativity
 * Learner accountability must be embedded in all assessment

2.2 Build the capacity of educators and educational institutions to use technology to improve assessment materials and processes for both formative and summative uses.
 * Our "reporting" vehicles i.e. grade books MUST reflect progress on standards and benchmarks for the learner to "own" their progress

2.3 Conduct research and development that explore how gaming technology, simulations, collaboration environments, and virtual worlds can be used in assessments to engage and motivate learners and to assess complex skills and performances embedded in standards.
 * Time, time, time....if Thomas Edison needed thousands of "failures" before finding the right filament for the light bulb, then educators must be given time to develop new models for our 21st Century learners. How will this be paid for? Who will participate?

2.4 Revise practices, policies, and regulations to ensure privacy and information protection while enabling a model of assessment that includes ongoing student learning data gathering and sharing for continuous improvement.
 * How do we empower the learner to be in charge of their own growth and learning?
 * It is about the learning rather than a score, how to we consistently evaluate standard across the content, district, and state?
 * We need to evaluate the process not the product