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The Contextualisation of 21st Century Skills : Assessment in East Africa / edited by Esther Care, Mauro Giacomazzi, John Kabutha Mugo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Care, Esther.
- Series:
- The Enabling Power of Assessment, 2198-2651 ; 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational tests and measurements.
- Education and state.
- International education.
- Comparative education.
- Assessment and Testing.
- Educational Policy and Politics.
- International and Comparative Education.
- Local Subjects:
- Assessment and Testing.
- Educational Policy and Politics.
- International and Comparative Education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (221 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2024.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2024.
- Summary:
- This open access book is written for educators and policymakers who seek to empower young people with competencies necessary for fulfilling lives in the 21st century. It reports how a large group of educators from government and civil society organisations, together with researchers from universities, used their curriculum, assessment, and social economy expertise to develop contextualised definitions of life skills and values, and associated assessment tools. The book also reports on levels of these competencies of over 45,000 adolescents, from a household-based assessment conducted in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. The results describe how these adolescents vary in proficiency by region, age, and other factors, providing a resource for national education ministries to factor into policy decisions. Given the technical requirements of measuring individuals’ social-emotional and related competencies, how is it possible to capture an adolescent’s life skills across varied contexts? The book provides readers with a pragmatic yet technically robust process for undertaking a large-scale assessment program designed to inform policy.
- Contents:
- Part1: The 21st century skills phenomenon: Chapter1. 21st century ‘competencies” in East Africa: contextualisation to assessment
- Chapter2. Generation and use of assessment data to inform policy in East Africa
- Part 2 :Global and contextual perspectives on collaboration: Chapter3. Global and contextual perspectives on self-awareness and respect
- Chapter4. Global and contextual perspectives on problem solving
- Part 3 :Approaches to measurement of 21st century skills: Chapter5. Challenges of ‘visible behaviours’ in monitoring collaboration
- Chapter6. Scenario approach to assessment of lifeskills
- Part4: 21st century skills proficiency of adolescents in East Africa: Chapter7. Implications of adolescent proficiencies for education policy in East Africa.
- ISBN:
- 9783031514906
- 3031514904
- OCLC:
- 1424861187
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