{"data":{"ID":519,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1443549968,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Inventing a world without tests","Handle":"inventing_a_world_without_tests","ShortDescription":"Creativity, ownership, collaboration, craftsmanship, problem solving, persistence, communication, citizenship, purpose. These qualities are critical to our students\u2019 long-term success. And they are completely ignored in policy conversations about school quality. How can we develop tools, routines, and technologies that address this disconnect?","Description":"Standardized tests measure only a small fraction of the knowledge and skills students need to be successful beyond high school, and yet test scores comprise the overwhelming majority of policy indicators of school quality and educational success. Some of this results from old thinking about what\u2019s worth learning. But it\u2019s also because we have a lot of experience defining and measuring what it means to read and do math. As a result, these assessments are inexpensive and scaleable. \r\n\r\nIn the No Child Left Behind era, it will be difficult to advance a different set of priorities if we can\u2019t show that they can be assessed reliably and at scale. As educators, we value things like creativity, ownership, collaboration, problem solving, persistence, communication and citizenship. We know that these qualities matter a great deal for students\u2019 long-term success, and many of us have developed strategies to embed them in our approach to assessment. What we know less about is how to aggregate up. How can we design tools, routines, or technologies to provide valid and useful information about student progress in domains that are traditionally hard to measure? \r\n\r\nThat\u2019s what we\u2019ll focus on in this conversation. Our goals are to share what we know about what is already out there, and generate new ideas that we can take back to our schools and classrooms to field test.","Link":["http:\/\/www.workshopschool.org"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School"],"Practice":"This conversation will follow an abbreviated design thinking format. The foundational question will be: How can we design tools, routines, or technologies to provide valid and useful information about student progress in domains that are traditionally hard to measure? We\u2019ll organize brainstorming sessions around a handful of critical skills not normally measured by tests, and then generate ideas for tools, routines and technologies with the potential to measure these skills in ways that are both useful for teachers and reliable for assessment and evaluation.","Presenter":["Matthew Riggan"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Workshop School"],"PresenterEmail":["matthew.riggan@workshopschool.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":71,"ScheduleLocationID":8,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5}}