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Global Education Student Assessment Tools
Global Education Student Assessment Tools
To begin to more intentionally teach and assess for global competence it is important to have tools that will aid you in examining your own teaching and curriculum as well as students' growth in global competence skills. I like the following tools for different purposes. Below, I describe what I value about each tool and how each might be useful to your practice.
Asia Society's Global Competence Matrix for Social Studies is my favorite assessment tool for the following reasons:
- It has four straightforward skills to assess that are a mixture of thinking skills and action skills -- Investigate the World, Recognize Perspectives, Communicate Ideas, and Take Action.
- It breaks down HOW students can demonstrate these global competence skills and gives specific content-appropriate examples.
- It isn't too long or onerous. I'm always hesitant to use overly wordy or detailed criteria tools because I think they lose their impact for both teachers and students. This tool feels more streamlined and measurable.
- Asia Society has similar matrices for other disciplines as well as a general matrix, making them fantastic tools for cross disciplinary work with colleagues.
Asia Society's Checklist for Teaching Global Competence is another favorite tool. This is a tool specifically for teachers and is useful when designing curriculum. It serves as a check on whether and how well you're designing assignments, assessments, lessons, and units with global competence skills in mind. I intend to use this when I design new course materials in the future.
The American Forum for Global Education's Global Education Checklist is incredibly comprehensive and is useful for a variety of purposes. The tool, which is comprised of a series of checklists, can be used by classroom teachers to gauge student entry points and growth regarding global education skills. It asks teachers to answer a series of questions on a four point scale to indicate students' comfort level or familiarity with the skills. Other checklists are useful for assessing how schools or school districts are doing regarding their commitment to cultivating global competence on a more programmatic or systematic level. I could see using this tool if a school were embarking on a wholesale project to center its mission around global education.
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