Assessing 21st Century Skills

Assessing core subjects and 21st century themes is likely a skill that content area experts have much training and experience executing. However, there aren’t widely accepted methods of assessing the other 21st Century Skills in the same way that there are other, more subject-specific skills. There are, however, a handful of broad recommendations that echo quality assessment criteria across teaching philosophies and strategies that can be applied to assessing 21st century skills.