21st Century Social Studies Assessment

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• Abstract
• S.S. Learning & Assessment Objectives
• Defining Assessment
• Examples of A.A.
• Advantages of Traditional Assessment
• Disadvantages of A. A.
• Disadvantages of Traditional Assessment
• Advantages of A. A.
• Why we need Change
• Challenges & Controversies of A. A.
• Recommendations
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
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Disadvantages of Traditional/Standardized Assessment

 

- School function of sorting - work in factories and those who would go to college. Detect individual differences in achievement among students.

- Educational practitioners abdicated responsibility for understanding or conducting assessments in schools, leaving it to test and textbook publishers to develop ‘scientifically precise’ assessment tools.

- Functional differentiation: teachers would teach and assessors would assess. Assessment and instruction were separated from one another.

- Assessment community launched an unprecedented program of psychometric research which are complex and technically intricate unfathomable by teachers and administrators which create more distance between assessment and instruction.

- Centralized testing for efficiency. Stiggins, 1991

- Students’ increasing pressure- lead to a sense of futility (stop caring and stop trying). Consistent evidence of poor performance - long-lasting loss of confidence. Those who stop believing that they are capable of learning will stop trying (Stiggins 1999).

 
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