Changing Paradigms for Education: From Filling Buckets to Lighting Fires To Cultivation of Intellective Competence

Author(s):

Gordon, E. Wyatt; Gordon, Edmund W.; Aber, J. Lawrence; Berliner, David C.

Publication Year:

2013

Source:

Paper prepared for The Gordon Commission on the Future of Assessment in Education

Document Type:

Report

Page Count:

31

Subject/Key Words:

The Gordon Commission on the Future of Assessment in Education, Recall (Learning), Student Engagement, Future of Assessment, Social Skills, Student Diversity, Cognitive Processes, Paradigm (Theory of knowledge)

Abstract

This essay provides an overview of the factors that promise to shift the ways in which we think about education and assessment in the future. The authors theorize about the ways that education will need to change in order to survive through these paradigm shifts.

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