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oapen-20.500.12657-883622024-03-28T14:02:54Z The Contextualisation of 21st Century Skills Care, Esther Giacomazzi, Mauro Kabutha Mugo, John 21st century skills lifeskills educational policy measurement household-based assessment assessment contextualisation East Africa education cultural perspectives Life Skills and Values (ALiVE) national education systems Skills development educational expectations vs reality conceptualizations of 21st century skills Kenya Education Tanzania education Uganda education thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JND Educational systems and structures::JNDH Education: examinations and assessment thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNF Educational strategies and policy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education This open access book is written for educators and policymakers who seek to empower young people with competencies necessary for fulfilling lives in the 21st century. It reports how a large group of educators from government and civil society organisations, together with researchers from universities, used their curriculum, assessment, and social economy expertise to develop contextualised definitions of life skills and values, and associated assessment tools. The book also reports on levels of these competencies of over 45,000 adolescents, from a household-based assessment conducted in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. The results describe how these adolescents vary in proficiency by region, age, and other factors, providing a resource for national education ministries to factor into policy decisions. Given the technical requirements of measuring individuals’ social-emotional and related competencies, how is it possible to capture an adolescent’s life skills across varied contexts? The book provides readers with a pragmatic yet technically robust process for undertaking a large-scale assessment program designed to inform policy. 2024-03-13T11:11:15Z 2024-03-13T11:11:15Z 2024 book ONIX_20240313_9783031514906_49 9783031514906 9783031514890 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/88362 eng The Enabling Power of Assessment application/pdf n/a 978-3-031-51490-6.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-031-51490-6 Springer Nature Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-031-51490-6 10.1007/978-3-031-51490-6 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 e3745930-9355-492e-ac8f-ac51df58c6be 9783031514906 9783031514890 Springer International Publishing 11 211 Cham [...] open access
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This open access book is written for educators and policymakers who seek to empower young people with competencies necessary for fulfilling lives in the 21st century. It reports how a large group of educators from government and civil society organisations, together with researchers from universities, used their curriculum, assessment, and social economy expertise to develop contextualised definitions of life skills and values, and associated assessment tools. The book also reports on levels of these competencies of over 45,000 adolescents, from a household-based assessment conducted in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. The results describe how these adolescents vary in proficiency by region, age, and other factors, providing a resource for national education ministries to factor into policy decisions. Given the technical requirements of measuring individuals’ social-emotional and related competencies, how is it possible to capture an adolescent’s life skills across varied contexts? The book provides readers with a pragmatic yet technically robust process for undertaking a large-scale assessment program designed to inform policy.
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