Measuring what matters most : : choice-based assessments for the digital age / / Daniel L. Schwartz and Dylan Arena.

• Superior document: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation reports on digital media and learning
• VerfasserIn: Schwartz, Daniel L.,; Arena, Dylan,
• TeilnehmendeR: Arena, Dylan,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, Massachusetts : : The MIT Press,, [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 181 pages) :; illustrations.

"If a fundamental goal of education is to prepare students to act independently in the world -- in other words, to make good choices -- an ideal educational assessment would measure how well we are preparing students to do so. Current assessments, however, focus almost exclusively on how much k...

Table of Contents

• Beliefs about useful learning
• Enter technology
• Choice is the central concern
• The isolation of knowledge
• Preparation for future learning
• Choice-based assessments of learning
• Standards for twenty-first-century century learning choices
• The tangle of reliability and reification
• New approaches to assessment design
• A research and development proposal
• Fairness and choice
• Final summary.