The Role of Assessment and New Metrics in Dealing With Changes in Education in the Digital Age: Findings From the International Academy of Education

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This session examines changes in measurement that used to evaluate teacher and student progress in social and academic settings. It presents studies conducted by Fellows of the International Academy of Education. David Berliner addresses the evaluation of teacher competence and explores alternatives that yield valid inferences. Doug Willms and Lucia Tramonte explore measures of social and self-efficacy skills associated with intervention programs. Yong Zhao reviews the influence of 21st-century skills from medicine assessment and the kinds of side-effects that these assessments might have. Information is drawn from medical research and measurement where side-effects are measured more effectively. Patrick Griffin links underachieving high capacity students to the need for C21 skill where students surpass their teachers competency lev.

Sub Unit

• International Academy of Education - IAE

Chair

• Barry J. Fraser, Curtin University

Papers

• The Side Effects of Education and Their Measurement - Yong Zhao, University of Oregon

• Evaluating Teachers by Substituting Invalid Quantitative Metrics for Complex Qualitative Judgments - David C. Berliner, Arizona State University

• New Measures for Comparative Studies of Low- and Middle-Income Countries - Lucia Tramonte, University of New Brunswick; Jon Douglas Willms, University of New Brunswick

• New Outcomes, New Metrics, and Implications for Growth Models of Learning - Patrick E. Griffin, University of Melbourne

Discussant

• Gustavo E. Fischman, Arizona State University