Assessment and Teaching of 21st Century Skills: Research and Applications (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783319653662)

Preface; Patrick Griffin.- PART 1: Introduction.- 1. 21st Century Skills: From Theory to Action; Esther Care.- PART 2: Assessment of 21st Century Skills.- 2. Assessment of 21st Century Skills: The Issue of Authenticity; Esther Care and Helyn Kim.- 3. Competencies for Complexity: Problem Solving in the 21st Century; Joachim Funke, Andreas Fischer and Daniel V. Holt.- 4. Shifts in the Assessment of Problem Solving; Katarina Krkovic, Maida Mustafic, Sascha Wüstenberg, and Samuel Greiff.- 5. Challenges of Assessing Collaborative Problem-solving; Art Graesser, Peter W. Foltz, Yigal Rosen, David Williamson Shaffer, Carol Forsyth, and Mae-Lynn Germany.- PART 3: Country Applications and Initiatives.- 6. Collective Creativity and Collaborative Problem-solving among Singapore Secondary School Students; Jennifer Pei-Ling Tan, Imelda Caleon, Elizabeth Koh, Chew Leng Poon, and Hui Leng Ng.- 7. Collaborative Problem Solving in Finnish Pre-Service Teacher Education: A Case Study; Arto Ahonen, Päivi Häkkinen, and Johanna Pöysä-Tarhonen.- 8. A 21st Century Lens on the Common Core Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards; Kathleen Comfort and Michael Timms.- 9. Teaching 21st Century Skills: Implications at System Levels in Australia; Claire Scoular and Esther Care.- 10. Initiatives and Implementation of 21st Century Skills Teaching and Assessment in Costa Rica; María Eugenia Bujanda, Leda Muñoz, and Magaly Zúñiga.- PART 4: Information Communication Technologies: Their Measurement and Their Uses.- 11. Learning in Digital Networks as a Modern Approach to ICT Literacy; Mark Wilson, Kathleen Scalise, and Perman Gochyyev.- 12. Intersecting Learning Analytics and Measurement Science in the Context of ICT Literacy Assessment; Mark Wilson, Kathleen Scalise, and Perman Gochyyev.- 13. How Can Use of Data from Computer-delivered Assessments Improve Measurement?; Dara Ramalingam and Raymond J. Adams.- 14. Next Wave for Integration of Educational Technology into the Classroom: Collaborative Technology Integration Planning Practices; Kathleen Scalise.- PART 5: Transforming Education Systems to Integrate 21st Century Skills.- 15. Curricular and Implementation Challenges in Introducing 21st Century Skills Education; Nienke Nieveen and Tjeerd Plomp.