Learning.com completes rigorous standards setting and validation for its new 21st Century Skills Assessment
Review panel of educators and psychometricians ensures the assessment provides valid and accurate data for elementary and middle school students. Read the press release.

Beta for New Assessment Aligned to Refreshed ISTE Standards
In Fall 2008, Learning.com conducted a beta administration of 21st Century Skills Assessment. Read the press release.

SIMBA Electronic Education Report (Oct 2008)
NAEP Will Include Technology Literacy in 2012 — Adding technology literacy to the NAEP assessment raises visibility that technology literacy is a worthy goal, says Learning.com CEO William J. Kelly in a SIMBA Information Newsletter. See article.

STEM Report from SETDA (Sept 2008)
Science, Technology, Engineering, Math Report — Learning.com is a sponsor for an important new report from the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA), addressing the need to provide all children with an education that includes a solid foundation of rigorous science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) instruction. See report.

Are Your Students Ready for the 21st Century?

Download the PDF product sheet (445KB) for more information about 21st Century Skills Assessment.

21st Century Skills Assessment

Learning.com’s 21st Century Skills Assessment provides psychometrically valid data on how well your students grasp critical 21st century skills, and is fully aligned to the ISTE NETS-S 2007 refreshed standards.

21st Century Skills Assessment:

• Psychometrically valid data
• Fully aligned to all 24 ISTE NETS-S 2007 Standards
• Criterion-referenced
• Optional portfolio assessment
• Elementary and Middle School versions
• Pre- and post-tests

Report accuracy ensured through psychometric validation
21st Century Skills Assessment was released following an extensive national beta test and psychometric analysis of the results. No item in 21st Century Skills Assessment is used for scoring unless it has been found to be fit through psychometric analysis. Scoring for each assessment is determined through psychometric analysis.

• Confidently use data
• Reports on multiple levels of proficiency overall, and for each NETS-S 2007 standards category – advanced, proficient, basic and below basic
• Valid reports at the district, school, teacher, class and student levels with comparative national data
• Inform instruction at the student, class, school, district and state level
• Identify curriculum gaps
• Locate best practices and success stories at the teacher, strand and performance indicator level
• Item details show student performance at the level of each of the 24 NETS-S 2007 performance indicators

Performance- and Knowledge-based items
The 21st Century Skills Assessment uses a psychometrically validated blend of interactive, performance-based questions that allow students to authentically perform complex tasks in simulated applications, and multiple choice, knowledge-based questions. See an 8-item sample assessment test.

Portfolio assessment
Integrated, project specific rubrics enable teachers to accurately assess student skills like creativity and innovation. Automatic virus checking and secure hosting by Learning.com assure that any student materials uploaded as part of their portfolios will be safe.

Aligned to ISTE NETS-S 2007 refreshed standards
Our assessment is aligned to all 24 standards in these six strands:

• Creativity and Innovation
• Communication and Collaboration
• Research and Information Fluency
• Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making
• Digital Citizenship
• Technology Operations and Concepts