Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills

This second volume of papers from the ATC21S™ project deals with the development of an assessment and teaching system of 21st century skills. Readers are guided through a detailed description of the methods used in this process. The first volume was published by Springer in 2012 (Griffin, P., McGaw, B. & Care, E., Eds., Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills, Dordrecht: Springer). The major elements of this new volume are the identification and description of two 21st century skills that are amenable to teaching and learning: collaborative problem solving, and learning in digital networks. 

Specifically, this book:

• presents systematically and unambiguously the concepts and methodology for research and development in assessment of selected 21st century skills;
• describes how collaborative problem solving and learning in digital networks as 21st century skills are amenable to teaching and learning;
• shows how data collected from assessments of selected 21st century skills can be used by teachers for classroom practice; and
• introduces break-through methods for capturing student thinking processes and problem solving strategies through online collaborative assessment tasks.