Presenters
Assessment Specialist IV
Educational Testing Service
Liz Corcoran has over a decade of experience in the design and creation of assessments. Her primary focus is on exploring how to move past traditional mutiple-choice, subject-based assessments into a more organic and context-driven assessment ecosystem that can evaluate situational judgement, noncognitive skills, and applied field knowledge.
Senior Talent Management Partner
Caterpillar
Former English teacher and assessment developer. Current relationship manager in the higher ed and workforce space.
Instructional Design
Educational Testing Service
Dr. Devon Tomasulo is an assessment development expert with a decade at ETS. Her work focuses on innovative approaches to assess noncognitive skills, blending academic rigor with the study and application of positive psychology.
Session description
Showing how multiple choice can move into gamified scenario-based contexts to provide learners with realistic experiences, allowing them to demonstrate noncognitive skills, including negotiation, collaboration, and resilience. We'll showcase a negotiation task, illustrating how these tasks can provide cheaper, more viable innovation and bridge traditional, validated assessment and VR.
Purpose & objective
Participants will gain a high-level overview of how to begin placing multiple choice activities within larger context-driven scenarios in order to guide learners through interconnected interactions to develop and assess noncognitive skills in a guided, safe environment. An overview of possible tools that can be used, ranging from simple applications like Storyline to more advanced options that include VR/AI.
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Outline
Introduction/History of Development (5 min);
Demonstration of Negotiation Task (7-10 min);
Possible tools for constructing activities (7-10 min);
Questions (5 min)
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Supporting research
Improving Noncognitive Constructs for Career Readiness and Success: A Theory of Change for Postsecondary, Workplace, and Research Applications. Research Report. ETS RR-22-04
Williams, Kevin M.; Martin-Raugh, Michelle P.; Lentini, Jennifer E.
ETS Research Report Series, Dec 2022
https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1366880
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