Purpose of Project

The purposes of the project are set out in the Call to Action issued by Cisco, Intel and Microsoft at the Learning and Technology World Forum in London on 13 January 2009. A briefer statement is provided in the Policy Brief. The purposes of the project are to:

• mobilise international educational, political and business communities to make the transformation of educational assessment and, hence, instructional practice a global priority;
• specify in measurable terms high-priority understanding and skills needed by productive and creative workers and citizens of the 21st century;
• identify methodological and technological barriers to ICT-based assessment;
• develop and pilot new assessment methodologies;
• examine and recommend innovative ICT-enabled, classroom-based learning environments and formative assessments that support the development of 21st century skills;
• examine the links between and the relevance of the 21st century skills and the traditional outcome measures of school systems.