Authentic Assessment of Critical Skills and Career Readiness - Margo Griffith and Doris Zahner, PhD

Edalex Podcast

In this conversation style interview, Margo Griffith and Doris Zahner, PhD from the Council for Aid to Education (CAE) discuss authentic assessment of essential skills for career success, such as critical thinking, problem-solving and written communication. Zahner discusses how authentic assessment accurately measures critical skills, the evidence of authentic assessments that is provided to educators and learners and how different institutions use attainment of critical skills data.
Their topics of discussion include:

• 1:33 - Assessing in-demand critical skills and connecting learners to hiring managers
• 3:09 - How authentic assessment effectively and accurately measures critical skills
• 5:55 - Standardised authentic assessments vs customised assessments
• 7:01 - What evidence of authentic assessments is provided to educators and learners?
• 8:55 - How do institutions use attainment of critical skills data?
• 10:33 - How does personalised evidence support CAE's authentic assessments?
• 14:13 - How a broad range of institutions use authentic assessments

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