Earlier this month at the 2012 Education World Forum, the ATC21S team released a new video showcasing some of the collaborative problem solving (CPS) tasks commissioned for the project. Besides giving brief explanations of the tasks, the video also shows them being used in a participating school in Australia. We also preview the ways in which we are developing our assessment tools for measuring 21st century skills like CPS, and give a glimpse of the behind-the-scenes data our tools can generate.
The ATC21S video features students from Brookside College, Caroline Springs, in Victoria, Australia. Our thanks to the students, teacher Matt Finn, Principal Phonse Crawford, Regional Network Leader Jeff Cooper, and 21st Century Learning & Thinking Coach Alf Galea. The Melton Regional Network of schools participated in the first round of ATC21S trials of collaborative problem solving.
Click here to watch the ATC21S video on collaborative problem solving tasks on our YouTube channel.
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[...] On January 27-28 the 2012 Pearson Global Research Conference was held in Western Australia. The theme of this year’s conference was the role of technology and assessment in system-wide improvement. The conference aimed to foster discussions about how technologies can be used strategically to improve teaching and learning at broad, system-wide levels. The ATC21S project was represented at the conference by Patrick Griffin, ATC21S Executive Director, who gave a thematic talk titled “Challenges of Internet based collaborative problem solving assessment.” The presentation addressed some of the challenges involved with assessing collaborative problem solving (CPS) skills, such as the definition in delivery of the tasks; managing how schools and students access the tasks remotely; coding and calibrating the students’ performance against the tasks; and providing reports that encourage teaching to the CPS construct. The materials that need to be made available to teachers were also discussed. The presentation was followed by our recent video illustrating the ATC21S CPS tasks and children’s interaction with them. [...]