Workshop of Assessment of 21st Century Skills Agenda: Day 1

Jointly funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), this Workshop of Assessment of 21st Century Skills was held in January of 2011 and was designed to address the following questions: How can 21st century skills be assessed? What assessments of these skills are currently available and how 
well do they work? What needs to be done in order to develop additional assessments 
of these skills? How should the assessment results be used? The goal for this workshop was to capitalize on the prior efforts and explore strategies for assessing the five skills identified at the earlier workshops. The Committee on the Assessment of 21st Century Skills was asked to organize a workshop that reviewed assessments and related research for each of the five skills, with special attention to recent developments in technology-enabled assessment of critical thinking and problem-solving skills. The workshop was conducted in two parts and this is the agenda of the first, held in January of 2011. Embedded video links allow access to the recordings of the presentations.