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Assessment for Educational Accountability in History and Science: Beyond Recall

Sat, April 14, 2:15 to 3:45pm, Sheraton Wall Centre, Floor: Third Level, North Junior Ballroom C

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Currently summative assessment is dominated by the use of items emphasizing lower order cognitive skills such as recall. Assessment items are a major means by which teachers interpret the intentions of the curriculum and are also ‘high stakes’. Transforming assessment is thus an important lever to enhance the use of higher order cognitive processes of synthesis, analysis and critique. In this symposium, we present a range of innovative work exploring how to create assessment items for a range of grade levels that require the use of higher order cognitive processes within the domains of history and science. The symposium will be an opportunity to hear about the findings, the challenges and explore issues of domain-specificity versus domain-generality.

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