2019 Learning Impact Leadership Institute

Many of our traditional assessment methods will not be sufficient to solve the challenges put forth by new standards that are multidimensional or address skills not easily addressed by traditional assessment items. Rather, complex activities including simulations will be required to produce the evidence of integration of knowledge of a content domain and application of practices. Digital simulations can help us provide scenarios in which we can better observe students' ability to conduct scientific inquiry alongside content knowledge. This session will describe work underway in Minnesota to explore new opportunities for both formative and summative simulation-based assessment tools through collecting activity stream data. This data provides information about the processes students use in assessment tasks as evidence of student learning but questions remain about how to capture and aggregate this evidence into interpretable scores. It will cover administrative, authoring, and technical challenges encountered in this work.