Assessment in the 21st Century

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How we live, work, play and learn has been dramatically transformed by technology over the past 20 years. We need different skills today than we did in the 20th century, and educational institutions have a critical role to play in developing those skills. But by and large, primary and secondary schools have not kept pace with the changing skill sets that students need to succeed. No broad-based in place right now to determine whether our schools are doing well at teaching these skills. Governments as well as schools need to know what works and what doesn’t. Assessment is one basis in setting standard and influencing curricula at the local, regional, national and global level. And of course is of central importance in education, I believe. As future educator, some question like, “What are the essential things that will broaden our knowledge? Do we possess the assessment competencies for teachers? How can we cope up in the challenges of the 21st century?” might have been running in our minds. And so this school year made us the CTE students such grateful, that we had the chance to participate in this pre-service training on “Assessment in the 21st Century.” My fellow education students and I were very fortunate as well to have Dr. Carlo Magno, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology in De La Salle University, as our speaker. He is an incredible professor, I must say. Despite of discomfort of his leg, he still stood firm yet so hearfelt, and shared his wisdom on us. That’s just one of the things to reflect on. I have observed well how he handled hundreds of participants from different schools and universities. He motivated us to listen, say something, respond, react and most especially, to engage our whole self in with whatever we tackle. The topic centered on Assessment. An assessment that is no traditional as before. And I can see, it is really
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