Innovating Assessments to Measure and Support Complex Skills
Policy makers around the world recognise the importance of developing young people’s
21st century skills like problem solving, creative thinking, self-regulation and collaboration.
Many countries also include these skills as part of the intended learning outcomes
of their education systems. To shift intention into practice, educational assessments
need to better measure what matters. Innovative assessments are needed that combine
conceptual, technological and methodological advances in educational measurement.
This report explores new approaches to measuring complex skills through a practical
and applied assessment design lens, bringing together perspectives from leading experts
to consider what we can learn from the learning sciences to define more authentic
assessment experiences and expand the range of skills we are able to measure in both
disciplinary and cross-disciplinary contexts of practice. The report also examines
how technology can expand our possibilities for innovation, including the creation
of more interactive and immersive problems and the generation of meaningful sources
of potential evidence about students’ proficiency. Finally, the report explores how
we can make sense of the rich data captured in interactive digital environments using
new analytical approaches, and how we can ensure the valid interpretation and use
of results from innovative assessments.
Available from April 28, 2023