Overview of type of badges and how different systems encourage individual skill development and team based learning. Uses a 3 Part Badge System.
PACE is a first-in-the-nation accountability strategy that offers a reduced level of standardized testing together with locally developed common performance assessments. These assessments are designed to support deeper learning through competency education, and to be more integrated into students’ day-to-day work than current standardized tests. Meaningful assessment is a key part of a strategy to ensure students are getting the most out of their education.
This K-12 system will build on New Hampshire’s competency work, including the development of statewide college and career ready competencies, and will be one component of the New Hampshire student assessment system. The PACE accountability option provides districts with an alternative route of demonstrating measurable progress in student outcomes in the New Hampshire competencies, the Work-Study Practices, and other important measures. It enables districts to emphasize meaningful content, high quality instruction, and deep student engagement. The PACE option will have multiple components, but performance assessment will be a central feature. In this first year, PACE districts will report on ELA, mathematics, science, and the Work-Study Practices. As New Hampshire develops further competencies, social studies, the arts, and other content areas will become a part of the PACE system.
This presentation focuses on the prospects of using ePortfolios as an assessed component by exploring examples and an ePortfolio assessment rubric from Coventry University’s Pre-sessional English programme. Assessed ePortfolios can include an integrated skills assessment and reflection component which together can be assessed formatively and/or summatively. Given the dynamic nature of ePortfolios, students stand to gain both academically and professionally.