by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village The assessment framework of the OECD Study on Social and Emotional Skills (SEL) has just been published. (1) Together with the previously published conceptual framework, the Study now has complete framework documentation explaining all of its substantive and methodological ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Contrary to common assumption young people do not necessarily develop sophisticated digital skills just by growing up using digital devices: 18% of students who took part in the latest cycle of the International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) ... Read more >
by Steve Dept, cApStAn CEO A majority of test providers have migrated from pencil-and-paper assessments to computer-based assessments in the first two decades of this century, and this has driven a surge in sophisticated testing platforms. These offer a broad range of advantages: from enhanced testing experience for respondents to ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Two recent articles in the Harvard Business Review present radically opposing views on the issue of skills training as a possible future alternative to higher education. This is an issue which is likely to continue to be the ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village The E-ATP conference was a vibrant event, bustling with awareness of disruption in the testing industry and eagerness to board the train to transform assessments. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, brain science, big data, personalized and adaptive learning, rapidly changing ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Economists at the Paris School of Economics and Dauphine University in France believe there is. In a recent study they have analyzed data on how 300.000 teenagers in 64 countries performed on math and reading in the Programme for ... Read more >
Online, remote, on-demand, self-paced, informal, diverse, flexible, practical, life-long, augmented, gamified, automated ... these are some of the buzzwords related to the future of education, as seen by some of the most innovative players in the field. An interesting overview. Source: https://www.disruptordaily.com/what-is-the-future-of-education-11-experts-share-their-insights/ Photo credit: Caleb Minear @ Unsplash Read more >
by Steve Dept - cApStAn partner Fourteen years ago, in 2005, the UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS) were preparing the implementation of their Literacy Assessment and Monitoring Programme (LAMP). The programme aimed to measure a spectrum of literacy levels in a number of developing countries. The tested populations were ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Leonardo da Vinci had a voracious and prolific creative talent, says the author of this article, and today's models of assessment and methods of teaching are not receptive, or conducive, to creative impulses and disruptive, rebellious thinking. The article ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village About 32 million unique online vacancy postings from seven EU countries (Czech Republic, France, Germany, Spain, Ireland, Italy, UK) have been collected by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) and processed through big data and ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari - cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Education is changing to better cater to Gen Zers' specific needs, e.g. their wish to be the "architects" of their educational experience and to engage with the world as it changes. At Bennington, "pop-up" courses have been set up ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Translation quality is crucial in International Large Scale Assessments (ILSAs) as meaning shifts, which are language-driven, and perception shifts, which are culture-driven, can affect the psychometric properties of test items and thus compromise comparability. At the recent NCME conference ... Read more >