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Learning Unit Description: The Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training Project (iGETT) presents a series of Learning Units (LU) designed to incorporate federal land remote sensing data into Geographic Information System (GIS) instruction. The Flood Risk Assessment LU, by Barbara...

This presentation was given to the Workshop on Assessment of 21st Century Skills, held in January 2011. Filip Lievens from the Department of Personnel Management, Work and Organizational Psychology at Ghent University in Belgium describes a project in which a selection procedure is developed that...

This presentation was given to the Workshop on Assessment of 21st Century Skills, held in January 2011. Timothy Cleary, Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and his presentation highlight four main points: 1. To briefly underscore the need for and importance of...

In this professional development video from Getting Results, Dr. John Bransford, professor of education at the University of Washington School of Education, as well as a community college statistics instructor and a course designer discuss assessment. Bransford explains that learning goals should...

Learning Unit Description: The Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training Project (iGETT) presents a series of Learning Units (LU) designed to incorporate federal land remote sensing data into Geographic Information System (GIS) instruction. The Assessing the Impact of Tree Canopies...

This article, from Brandon Plewe and Steven Prager, outlines the University Consortium of Geographic Information Science's (UCGIS) Geographic Information Science and Technology Body of Knowledge, which is a curriculum meant "to identify the broad spectrum of knowledge, skills and techniques that...

This presentation was given to the Workshop on Assessment of 21st Century Skills, held in January 2011. Lynn Gracin Collins of Fenestra describes in this presentation what an Assessment Center is, and its technical qualities, challenges and innovations of technology in Assessment Centers, and an...

This presentation, by Joan Herman of the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, was given during the second Workshop of Assessment of 21st Century Skills was held in May, 2011. In it, Herman gives a recap of the previous workshop held in January, themes which...

This presentation was given to the Workshop on Assessment of 21st Century Skills, held in January 2011. Susan Case, Director of Testing at the National Conference of Bar Examiners, discusses the Multistate Bar Exam and each of its three components, including how each is graded and what skills each...

This presentation, by Rick Hoyle of Duke University, was given during the second Workshop of Assessment of 21st Century Skills was held in May, 2011. In it, Hoyle defines intrapersonal skills, discusses the importance of self-regulation and integrity, and provides information on measuring antisocial...