@article{1386713,
      recid = {1386713},
      author = {Schwartz, Daniel L., and Arena, Dylan,},
      title = {Measuring what matters most : choice-based assessments for  the digital age /},
      pages = {1 online resource (vi, 181 pages) :},
      abstract = {"If a fundamental goal of education is to prepare students  to act independently in the world -- in other words, to  make good choices -- an ideal educational assessment would  measure how well we are preparing students to do so.  Current assessments, however, focus almost exclusively on  how much knowledge students have accrued and can retrieve.  In Measuring What Matters Most, Daniel Schwartz and Dylan  Arena argue that choice should be the interpretive  framework within which learning assessments are organized.  Digital technologies, they suggest, make this possible;  interactive assessments can evaluate students in a context  of choosing whether, what, how, and when to learn. Schwartz  and Arena view choice not as an instructional ingredient to  improve learning but as the outcome of learning. Because  assessments shape public perception about what is useful  and valued in education, choice-based assessments would  provide a powerful lever in this reorientation in how  people think about learning. Schwartz and Arena consider  both theoretical and practical matters. They provide an  anchoring example of a computerized, choice-based  assessment, argue that knowledge-based assessments are a  mismatch for our educational aims, offer concrete examples  of choice-based assessments that reveal what  knowledge-based assessments cannot, and analyze the  practice of designing assessments. Because high variability  leads to innovation, they suggest democratizing assessment  design to generate as many instances as possible. Finally,  they consider the most difficult aspect of assessment:  fairness. Choice-based assessments, they argue, shed  helpful light on fairness considerations."--Provided by  Publisher.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1386713},
}