The Future of Academic Measurement: The End of the Big Test

Katie McClarty (Renaissance), Christina Theokas (Turnaround For Children), Stacy Caldwell (Penn Foster) and Tom Vander Ark (Getting Smart) explores The Future of Academic Measurement: The End of the Big Test at the 2021 ASU+GSV Summit.The future of learning includes better, broader, less intrusive measures of learner growth and the context that supports learning. What should we measure? How to make better use of formative assessment? How to embed more assessments in meaningful tasks? How to shrink big summative tests? How to help learners share their capabilities more fully than an A-F grade or a score on a state exam?