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Sexy Multiple Choice: Gamified, Scenario-Based Experiences for Noncognitive Learning and Assessment

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Colorado Convention Center, Bluebird Ballroom Lobby, Table 7

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Elizabeth Corcoran
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.
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David Schor
Senior Talent Management Partner
Caterpillar
Former English teacher and assessment developer. Current relationship manager in the higher ed and workforce space.
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Dr. Devon Tomasulo
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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Session specifications

Topic:
Innovative learning environments
Skill level:
Beginner
Audience:
Professional developers, Teachers, Teacher education/higher ed faculty
Attendee devices:
Devices not needed
Participant accounts, software and other materials:
The only equipment necessary for the current format of the presentation is a projector and screen that works with a PC laptop, so that we can display examples.
ISTE Standards:
For Education Leaders:
Connected Learner
  • Set goals to remain current on emerging technologies for learning, innovations in pedagogy and advancements in the learning sciences.
  • Use technology to regularly engage in reflective practices that support personal and professional growth.
  • Develop the skills needed to lead and navigate change, advance systems and promote a mindset of continuous improvement for how technology can improve learning.

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