A Different Kind of Thinking: Shifting Approaches to Assessment and Teaching and Learning for the Benefit of All Students SEL PERC
- Author(s):
- ETS Policy Evaluation & Research Center
- Publication Year:
- 2022
- Source:
- ETS Policy Notes, v28 n1, Spring 2022
- Document Type:
- Periodical
- Page Count:
- 18
- Subject/Key Words:
- Racial Bias, Discrimination, Education Policy, Social Policy, Standardized Testing, Test Scores, COVID-19, Cognitive Ability, Resilience, Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), Admissions to Higher Education, Inequality, Diversity, Student Diversity, Gaming, High Stakes Testing, Student Performance
Abstract
ETS convened the “A Different Kind of Thinking: Shifting Approaches to Assessment and Teaching & Learning for the Benefit of All Students” symposium on April 20–21, 2021. At the symposium, speakers and participants identified ideas on what it would look like if teaching and testing systems were designed to support the success of the full range of our demographically diverse, globally engaged, and sociologically complex student population. The symposium, a follow up to ETS’s 2019 event “Taxing the African American Student: The Impact and Mitigation of Structural Stigma on Test Performance and School Success" came after the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, which further illuminated understanding of the ways in which stress can tax a student’s intellectual and emotional bandwidth and created a historic opportunity to transform teaching and testing, moving beyond the traditional steps of incrementally adjusting curriculum and professional development in light of evidence of inequity.