Evaluation for the 21st Century

by Eleanor Chelimsky
Evaluation for the 21st Century
Author: Eleanor Chelimsky
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 558
Release: 1997-01-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0761906118
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Evaluation for the 21st Century features thoughtfully written introductions to each of the main sections that provide a context and synthesis of the various evaluators' chapters. After reading this groundbreaking book, researchers and practitioners will be able to recognize these new developments in evaluation as they encounter them, place them in context, and incorporate them into their own evaluation professions and practices.

Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills

by Patrick Griffin
Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills
Author: Patrick Griffin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2014-10-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9401793956
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This second volume of papers from the ATC21STM project deals with the development of an assessment and teaching system of 21st century skills. Readers are guided through a detailed description of the methods used in this process. The first volume was published by Springer in 2012 (Griffin, P., McGaw, B. & Care, E., Eds., Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills, Dordrecht: Springer). The major elements of this new volume are the identification and description of two 21st century skills that are amenable to teaching and learning: collaborative problem solving, and learning in digital networks. Features of the skills that need to be mirrored in their assessment are identified so that they can be reflected in assessment tasks. The tasks are formulated so that reporting of student performance can guide implementation in the classroom for use in teaching and learning. How simple tasks can act as platforms for development of 21st century skills is demonstrated, with the concurrent technical infrastructure required for its support. How countries with different languages and cultures participated and contributed to the development process is described. The psychometric qualities of the online tasks developed are reported, in the context of the robustness of the automated scoring processes. Finally, technical and educational issues to be resolved in global projects of this nature are outlined.

Program Development in the 21st Century

by Nancy G. Calley
Program Development in the 21st Century
Author: Nancy G. Calley
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2010-12-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1412974496
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This is is a core text for courses across mental health service disciplines, including counselling, social work, psychology, public health, and nursing. It was developed by the author for her course in counseling services and administration as a response to her frustration for a comprehensive book that takes students through all the necessary components involved in developing a mental health community program (such as reducing teen pregnancy, increasing access for minorities, health promotion and prevention). This book is unique in its coverage of all the main areas required to plan and implement a community program, but it goes a step further by including important information on sustaining the program, budgeting, funding, community resource development, and fully implementing the program. In addition, the author has developed a number of tools that aid the student in developing a community program (usually a required class project) including exercises to help with needs assessment and planning, as well as exercises and quizzes, which will be included in a cd with the book. The book presents the author's 13-step model that guides a student through the entire process of planning and developing a mental health community program.

Educational Assessment in the 21st Century

by Claire Wyatt-Smith
Educational Assessment in the 21st Century
Author: Claire Wyatt-Smith
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2009-08-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1402099649
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Signs of Change: Assessment Past, Present and Future Another Time, Another Place...Examinations Then and Now In the Temple of Literature in Hanoi, Vietnam, a series of stone stelae records the names of the handful of illustrious examination candidates who, in each century, passed the national examination to become a Doctor of Literature. Beginning in the 11thcentury,theexamswereconductedpersonallybysuccessivekingswhopursued Confucian ideals that found expression in the enormous value placed on the pursuit of wisdom and learning. In the 21st century we are both puzzled and impressed by this tradition. Puzzled by such an explicit commitment to a meritocracy in an essentially feudal society; impressed by this enthusiasm for learning and the pursuit of wisdom at the highest level of society. Yet, there are also important similarities between the 11th and 21st centuries. Then, as now, assessment was associated with excellence, high standards, pr- tige and competition—success for the chosen few; disappointment for the majority. Then, as now, the pursuit of excellence was embedded in a social context that favoured the elite and determined success in terms of the predilections of the p- erful. Then, as now, the purpose of the assessment, the way it was conducted and its impact on society all re ected the social and economic priorities of the day.

Assessing 21st Century Skills

by Laura Greenstein
Assessing 21st Century Skills
Author: Laura Greenstein
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2012-07-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452218013
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Provides K-12 classroom teachers with strategies for measuring student mastery beyond paper and pencil tests and suggests ways to diagnose learning and inform interventions in an accountable and reliable way. Included are vignettes and visual elements to help illustrate and apply the concepts.

The 21st Century Meeting and Event Technologies

by Seungwon "Shawn" Lee
The 21st Century Meeting and Event Technologies
Author: Seungwon "Shawn" Lee
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2017-03-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1482251841
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Here is the first book to specifically and comprehensively address the rapid changes and advances in technology in the planning, management, and marketing of meetings and events. The multigenerational trio of authors, including Joe Goldblatt and two of his former students, Seungwon "Shawn" Lee and Dessislava Boshnakova, cover the most important aspects of using technology for today’s meetings and events, such as How to harness the power of social media How to use crowdsourcing effectively How to choose appropriate room layout design software How to manage and use guest-generated content How to measure and evaluate your success How to choose meeting registration software How to promote your meeting with blogs, websites, podcasts, and more How to hold virtual meetings and events How to use search engine optimization to advantage The area of meeting and event technology is a fast-growing component of the meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibition (MICE) industry. With a foreword by Corbin Ball, an internationally renowned speaker, consultant and writer in the meetings and events technology field, The 21st Century Meeting and Event Technologies will be an essential resource for hospitality students and business professionals. Faculty may request an examination copy from [email protected]. Please provide your name and title, course title, course start date, current text, number of students, and your institution address.

Harnessing Public Research for Innovation in the 21st Century

by Anthony Arundel
Harnessing Public Research for Innovation in the 21st Century
Author: Anthony Arundel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 543
Release: 2021-03-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108842798
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A guide to maximizing the impact of work done at public research institutions and universities to boost innovation and growth.

Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century

by National Research Council
Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2007-10-05
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0309109922
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Advances in molecular biology and toxicology are paving the way for major improvements in the evaluation of the hazards posed by the large number of chemicals found at low levels in the environment. The National Research Council was asked by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to review the state of the science and create a far-reaching vision for the future of toxicity testing. The book finds that developing, improving, and validating new laboratory tools based on recent scientific advances could significantly improve our ability to understand the hazards and risks posed by chemicals. This new knowledge would lead to much more informed environmental regulations and dramatically reduce the need for animal testing because the new tests would be based on human cells and cell components. Substantial scientific efforts and resources will be required to leverage these new technologies to realize the vision, but the result will be a more efficient, informative and less costly system for assessing the hazards posed by industrial chemicals and pesticides.

Performance-Based Assessment for 21st-Century Skills

by Todd Stanley
Performance-Based Assessment for 21st-Century Skills
Author: Todd Stanley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2021-09-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000495140
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Performance-based assessments allow classroom teachers an alternative to traditional multiple-choice tests. We often use fill-in-the bubble assessments in education to determine the readiness of students. However, in the 21st-century workplace, these types of tests fail to truly prepare students. How many times in the real world are we called upon to take a multiple-choice test? In the real world, we are called upon to prove our merit through performance-based assessments, displaying our 21st-century skills. We should be preparing students for this in the classroom. Performance-Based Assessment for 21st-Century Skills makes the argument that teachers should use performance-based assessments in the classroom. It guides the educator step by step to show how he or she can create performance-based assessments for students, including what they look like, teaching students how to create them, setting the proper classroom environment, and how to evaluate them.