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Global Assessment Tools
Global Assessment Tools
This webpage provides visitors with resources in order to help them assess themselves and their students' level of global competence in a number of areas.
The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) has developed a Globally Competent Learning Continuum (GCLC) to help educators self-reflect on how globally competent they are. Global competent levels include: nascent, beginning, progressing, proficient. and advanced.
The American Forum for Global Education has published an excellent assessing tool for school global competency. It provides a checklist to help educators and administrators gauge their work in global education practices.
Primary Source educates global citizens by working with teachers to foster students’ knowledge, skills, and dispositions for thoughtful and engaged citizenship. This resource, Elements of a Global School, discusses the elements, the domains, and the best practices for having a globally-based school curriculum.
Continued from Primary Source. This resource, Steps for Globalizing your School, lays out and discusses the five action steps needed in order to globalize one's school. For each action step, it provides a list of guided questions to help direct the reader in this endeavor.
Some Literature
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development has published a piece on global education inclusivity. Towards the end of the file, it provides students with a list of sample questionnaires (assessments) for them to fill out to help gauge their global competency.
Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World is intended for classroom teachers, administrators, informal educators, policymakers, community leaders, researchers, parents, students, and all other stakeholders interested in preparing our youth for the 21st century.
The Global Competence Matrix was created as part of the Council of Chief State School Officers’ EdSteps Project in partnership with the Asia Society Partnership for Global Learning. It contains different matrices for different core subjects: Arts, English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, and World Languages.
From Investopedia: Glocalization "is a combination of the words "globalization" and "localization." The term is used to describe a product or service that is developed and distributed globally but is also adjusted to accommodate the user or consumer in a local market."
From Britannica: Glocalization "is the simultaneous occurrence of both universalizing and particularizing tendencies in contemporary social, political, and economic systems."
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