dudl.org » outcome management http://dudl.org/urbandebate Duval Urban Debate League - Jacksonville, Florida Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:38:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 How Should We Measure Student Learning?: The Many Forms of Assessment http://dudl.org/urbandebate/how-should-we-measure-student-learning-the-many-forms-of-assessment/ http://dudl.org/urbandebate/how-should-we-measure-student-learning-the-many-forms-of-assessment/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:19:33 +0000 admin http://dudl.org/urbandebate/?p=438 The demands of the today’s world require students learn many skills. A knowledge-based, highly technological economy requires that students master higher-order thinking skills and that they are able to see the relationships among seemingly diverse concepts. These abilities — recall, analysis, comparison, inference, and evaluation — will be the skills of a literate twenty-first-century citizen. And they are the kinds of skills that aren’t measured by our current high-stakes tests.

In addition, skills such as teamwork, collaboration, and moral character — traits that aren’t measured in a typical standardized tests — are increasingly important. Businesses are always looking for employees with people skills and the ability to get along well with coworkers.

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