Collecting and Connecting Dots
Sponsored by the CWRA+, Hosted by Westtown School
CWRA+ Information Session & Workshop
Registration is free and lunch will be served.
Monday, Apr 28, 2014, 08:30 AM
975 Westtown Road, West Chester, PA 19382
CWRA+ A Performance based approach to measuring 21st Century Learning
The workshop has 3 goals:
- learn how existing CWRA members are using actionable data from CWRA+ results for formative purposes, and for validating the institutions' contribution to growth of higher order skills.
- learn the anatomy of CWRA+ like performance tasks and how they link instruction to authentic assessment.
- help in the development of performance tasks that you might use in your classroom.
To date, over 200 public and independent schools have used the CWRA, now CWRA+ to determine whether their students are attaining the core deeper learning skills (like critical thinking, problem solving, and effective communication) they’ll need to succeed in high school, college, and life.
Agenda
- Introductions & Warm Up
- Sharing Out - Who's using cwra+, how and why?
- Break-out sessions - Novices & Veterans - Anatomy of a Performance Task
- Interdisciplinary nature of Performance Tasks
- Break out sessions - Working Lunch - Novices & Veterans - Building and Planning Performance Tasks
- Gallery walk & Closing
By Tony Wagner
Article in SchoolChange.org
by Thomas Friedman
Giving Assessment a Better Name
Respond Now - Space is Limited
Email: lfinkelstein@cae.org
Website: http://cae.org/performance-assessment/category/cwra-overview
Location: 215 Lexington Avenue, NY, United States
Phone: 212-204-8420
Twitter: @cla_beat
The Council for Aid to Education (CAE)
CAE is committed to helping educational institutions measure and improve learning outcomes for their students. This requires an array of tools appropriately matched to the diverse missions, goals, and purposes of each institution. CAE also maintains the nation’s premier database on fundraising outcomes at higher education institutions.
CAE is a national nonprofit organization based in New York City, was established in 1952 to conduct policy research on higher education and to promote corporate support of education. It was part of the RAND Corporation from 1996-2005. Its president is Dr. Roger Benjamin, former head of RAND Education and provost at the University of Minnesota. The chair of the Board is Dr. Katharine Lyall, Chancellor Emeritus of the University of Wisconsin.