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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Agenda and Participants for the May Workshop." National Research Council. 2011. Assessing 21st Century Skills: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13215.
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Appendix B


Agenda and Participants
for the May Workshop

Assessment of 21st Century Skills
Workshop Follow-Up Symposium
May 4, 2011

Keck Center, Room 100
500 Fifth St., NW
Washington, DC

AGENDA

Wednesday, May 4

 

1:00-1:10 Introductions, Overview of Plans
  Stuart Elliott, BOTA director
  Gerhard Salinger, National Science Foundation (cosponsor of project)
   
1:10-1:30 Brief Review of the Workshop in January
  Joan Herman, CRESST (steering committee chair)
   
 

•   What are 21st century skills and why are they important?

 

•   How do the skills relate to college and career readiness/ preparedness?

 

•   What are the challenges in assessing these skills?

   
  For information about the January workshop, see http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bota/Assessment_of_21st_Century_Skills_Homepage.html.
Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Agenda and Participants for the May Workshop." National Research Council. 2011. Assessing 21st Century Skills: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13215.
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1:30-2:30 Panel Discussion of Sample Assessments of 21st Century Skills (20 minutes each)
   
 

Assessments of Cognitive Skills

 

Nathan Kuncel, University of Minnesota

   
 

Assessments of Interpersonal Skills

 

Stephen M. Fiore, University of Central Florida

   
 

Assessments of Intrapersonal Skills

 

Rick Hoyle, Duke University

   
 

Each panelist will

   
 

•   Briefly describe/define the kind of skills grouped within their cluster.

 

•   Give a quick overview of why the skills are important skills.

 

•   Give a synthetic overview of the assessment examples that were presented at the January workshop and provide a critique/reaction to them.

 

•   Discuss the extent to which the example assessments (or assessment strategies) are likely to provide reliable and valid information about the intended skill.

   
2:30-2:45 Moderated Discussion
  Discussion Leader: Joan Herman
   
2:45-3:15 Response: Measurement Guidance (15 minutes each) Deirdre Knapp, HumRRO (steering committee member) Patrick Kyllonen, ETS (steering committee member)
   
  Speakers will respond to the panelists and address the following:
   
 

•   From a measurement/technical perspective, what is the feasibility of implementing assessments of these kinds of skills in the K-12 setting?

 

•   What purposes can they feasibly serve? How might the results be used?

 

•   What factors might complicate implementation of the assessment or assessment strategy?

 

•   What fairness and equal access issues should be considered?

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Agenda and Participants for the May Workshop." National Research Council. 2011. Assessing 21st Century Skills: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13215.
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3:15-3:45 Response: Policy Guidance (15 minutes each)
  Joan Herman
  Steven Wise, Northwest Evaluation Association (steering committee member)
   
  Speakers will respond to the panelists and address the following:
   
 

•   What are the key messages for policy makers with regard to implementing assessments of these skills in the K-12 setting?

 

•   What would you like policy makers to know about the assessments, the assessment strategies, and/or implementing measures of these constructs?

   
3:45-4:15 Moderated Discussion
  Joan Herman
   
4:15 Adjourn

PARTICIPANTS

Geri Anderson-Nielsen, Gender Equity for Mathematics and Science

Nancy Smith Brooks, U.S. Department of Education

Christopher Brown, Pearson Foundation

Rex Clemmensen, ACT, Inc.

Sara Clough, ACT, Inc.

Debbie Cole

Christopher Coro, U.S. Department of Education

Roman Czujko, American Institute of Physics

Emily Dalton Smith, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

George DeBoer, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Mary E. Dilworth, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards

Nancy Doorey, Education Testing Service, Center for K-12 Assessment and Performance Management

Emerson Elliott, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education

Maria Ferguson, Alliance for Excellent Education

Steven Fiore, University of Central Florida

Bruce Fuchs, National Institutes of Health

Gavin Fulmer, National Science Foundation

Peirce Hammond, U.S. Department of Education

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Agenda and Participants for the May Workshop." National Research Council. 2011. Assessing 21st Century Skills: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13215.
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Mark Heidorn, CTB/McGraw-Hill

Andres Henriquez, Carnegie Corporation of New York

Monica Herk, National Board on Education Sciences

Joan Herman, National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, University of California, Los Angeles (committee chair)

Ricardo Hernandez, U.S. Department of Education

Jeffrey Heyck-Williams, Two Rivers Public Charter School

Rick Hoyle, Duke University

Tom Keller, National Research Council

Bill Kelly, American Society for Engineering Education

Dana Kelly, National Center for Education Statistics

Arthur Kendall, Social Research Consultants

Jonathan King, National Institute on Aging

Deidre Knapp, HumRRO (committee member)

Ken Krehbiel, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Pat Kyllonen, Educational Testing Service (committee member)

Emily Lai, Pearson Foundation

Natalie Nielsen, National Research Council

Cornelia Orr, National Assessment Governing Board

Stephen Provasnik, National Center for Education Statistics

Taslima Rahman, U.S. Department of Education

Laura Rasmussen, MPR Associates, Inc.

Patrick Rooney, U.S. Department of Education

Gerhard Salinger, National Science Foundation

Gretchen Schultz, CTB/McGraw-Hill

Elena Silva, Education Sector

Candace Simon, Council of Great City Schools

Grace Solares, U.S. Department of Education

Gerald Sroufe, American Education Research Association

Barbara Stein, National Education Association

James Stone, National Research Center for Career and Technical Education

Peter Swerdzewski, Regents Research Fund

Marjorie Wine, General Educational Development Testing Service

Steven Wise, Northwest Evaluation Association (committee member)

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Agenda and Participants for the May Workshop." National Research Council. 2011. Assessing 21st Century Skills: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13215.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Agenda and Participants for the May Workshop." National Research Council. 2011. Assessing 21st Century Skills: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13215.
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The routine jobs of yesterday are being replaced by technology and/or shipped off-shore. In their place, job categories that require knowledge management, abstract reasoning, and personal services seem to be growing. The modern workplace requires workers to have broad cognitive and affective skills. Often referred to as "21st century skills," these skills include being able to solve complex problems, to think critically about tasks, to effectively communicate with people from a variety of different cultures and using a variety of different techniques, to work in collaboration with others, to adapt to rapidly changing environments and conditions for performing tasks, to effectively manage one's work, and to acquire new skills and information on one's own.

The National Research Council (NRC) has convened two prior workshops on the topic of 21st century skills. The first, held in 2007, was designed to examine research on the skills required for the 21st century workplace and the extent to which they are meaningfully different from earlier eras and require corresponding changes in educational experiences. The second workshop, held in 2009, was designed to explore demand for these types of skills, consider intersections between science education reform goals and 21st century skills, examine models of high-quality science instruction that may develop the skills, and consider science teacher readiness for 21st century skills. The third workshop was intended to delve more deeply into the topic of assessment. The goal for this workshop was to capitalize on the prior efforts and explore strategies for assessing the five skills identified earlier. The Committee on the Assessment of 21st Century Skills was asked to organize a workshop that reviewed the assessments and related research for each of the five skills identified at the previous workshops, with special attention to recent developments in technology-enabled assessment of critical thinking and problem-solving skills. In designing the workshop, the committee collapsed the five skills into three broad clusters as shown below:

  • Cognitive skills: nonroutine problem solving, critical thinking, systems thinking
  • Interpersonal skills: complex communication, social skills, team-work, cultural sensitivity, dealing with diversity
  • Intrapersonal skills: self-management, time management, self-development, self-regulation, adaptability, executive functioning

Assessing 21st Century Skills provides an integrated summary of the presentations and discussions from both parts of the third workshop.

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