21st century skills

State Examples
National Board Resource Center, Stanford University
Sandra Dean
Linda Darling-Hammond
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This report, one in a series to be released by Accomplished California Teachers (ACT), a group of National Board Certified Teachers, examines teacher evaluation.

This report offers our recommendations on making teacher evaluation a more useful tool to advance the quality of teaching...

Equity Issues
Center for American Progress
Linda Darling-Hammond
Beverly Falk
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In this paper, Linda Darling-Hammond and Beverly Falk describe evidence of how student-performance assessments support teachers' learning from the United States and around the world, particularly in countries that have been recognized for their high-performing educational systems. The authors...

State Accountability
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)
Linda Darling-Hammond
Soung Bae
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This research brief describes practical and measurable indicators of career as well as college readiness that the state and districts can look to as they develop accountability plans. The report includes specific information about how performance assessment can be used to measure student...

Performance Assessment & 21st Century Learning
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)
Soung Bae
Linda Darling-Hammond
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In this paper, Bae and Darling-Hammond propose three types of performance indicators for use in California's redesigned accountability system to measure and support career and college readiness. The report includes specific guidance for the use of performance assessment to measure both college...

Performance Assessment & 21st Century Learning
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)
Eric Rice
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This brief identifies three strategic practices to be taken collectively by schools, districts, and communities to mobilize around preparing students for college and career success:

  • Collectively articulating and aligning a set of student outcomes that prioritize 21st century skills
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Performance Assessment & 21st Century Learning
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)
Elle Rustique
Brad Stam
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This brief outlines how the California's Linked Learning District Initiative is supporting 10 school districts across California. Students enrolled in a Linked Learning pathway enter into a four-year program of study that integrates academic content with technical and 21st century skills within...

Performance Assessment & 21st Century Learning
Envision Schools, Stanford University School Redesign Network
Ruth Chung Wei
Bob Lenz
Ethan Wolfe Ris
Raymond L. Pecheone
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Envision Schools uses performance assessment as a key tool for supporting student learning. In this graduate follow-up study, Envision Schools puts its model of “Rigor, Relevance, Relationships, and Results” to the test, examining the results of a longitudinal tracking study to measure the...

Assessment Infrastructure & Costs
Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE)
Raymond L. Pecheone
Stuart Kahl
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This paper by Raymond L. Pecheone and Stuart Kahl describes efforts by states to use performance assessment in large-scale state accountability systems and highlights promising practices that can a basis for broadening how the nation approaches assessement and accountability. Lessons from...

Assessment Infrastructure & Costs
Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity (SCALE)
Ruth Chung Wei
Ken Cor
Nicole Arsha
Raymond L. Pecheone
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The purpose of this paper is to present findings regarding the reliability and validity of the performance based assessments used in the state pilot, including the results of three sets of studies: 1) Generalizability studies; 2) Regression analyses to ascertain the relationships between...

State Examples
Educational Policy Improvement Center (EPIC) Stanford Center For Opportunity Policy In Education (SCOPE)
David Conley
Linda Darling-Hammond
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In this paper, David Conley and Linda Darling-Hammond describe how two multistate assessment consortia are being designed to measure how well students achieve the goals of the Common Core State Standards. As planned, the new consortia assessments should be a significant advance over most states...

Performance Assessment & 21st Century Learning
National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE)
Robert Rothman
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This resource focuses on the importance of adopting multiple policies to adequately help schools focus on “21st century skills,” deeper learning competencies—the ability to use knowledge to think critically and solve problems, to communicate effectively, to collaborate, to reflect on learning—...

Performance Assessment & 21st Century Learning
National Research Council
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This report describes key skills that increase deeper learning, college and career readiness, student-centered learning, and higher order thinking. This includes such skills as critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, effective communication, motivation, persistence, and learning to...

21st Century Skills & Dispositions
Center for Innovation in Education (CIE), Educational Policy Improvement Center (EPIC)
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In 2012, states within the Innovation Lab Network (ILN) defined college, career, and citizenship readiness as a function of the interdependence of knowledge, skills, and dispositions. The ESD Developmental Frameworks were created in recognition of the many discipline-specific resources for...