OBF Academy - Using Badges to Assess 21st Century Skills of Student Interns
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The document discusses a pilot project at the University of Montana Western to use digital badges to assess 21st century skills gained by student interns. It introduces the four key 21st century skills of critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity. The project uses badges and an experiential learning cycle to evaluate skills in real work experiences. Results showed students struggled to understand badges, find evidence of skills, and connect classroom theory to internship contexts. Implications include introducing badges earlier in courses and helping students locate evidence through adjusted rubrics and faculty assistance.
OBF Academy - Using Badges to Assess 21st Century Skills of Student Interns
- 1. Using Badges to Assess 21st Century Skills of Student Interns A pilot project at the University of Montana Western Christian GildeDenise HollandJustin Mason
- 2. 21st century skills: The four Cs Critical Thinking Communication Collaboration Creativity
- 3. What does it mean to possess a soft skill?
- 4. What does it mean to possess a soft skill?
- 5. What does it mean to possess a soft skill?
- 6. What does it mean to possess a soft skill?
- 7. How to efficiently assess?
- 8. How to efficiently assess?
- 12. SKILLS AND TOOLS FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY REAL EXPERIENCES DURING INTERNSHIPS RESUME-WORTHY OUTCOMES The 4 Cs and Internships Collaboration Critical Thinking CommunicationsCreativity Real Companies Real Stakes Real Functions Real Challenges
- 13. Design-Based Research Design Implementation Analysis Redesign Redesign Theory Implications for Theory Requirements
- 14. Operationalization(critical thinking) Cut clothes material (10 min) Start Critical Path Cut accessories (5 min) Sew fur and stuff (30 min) Cut fur (10 min) Sew clothes (10 min) Embroider T- shirt (10 min) Dress bear (15 min) Package bear (5 min) Ship bear (5 min) Sew accessories (10 min)
- 15. Design Thinking (creativity) EMPATHIZE DEFINE IDEATE PROTOTYPE TEST
- 16. Commun ications Project Manage ment Leadership Business Plan Team work Data Analysis How Our Institution Will Use Badges (The Badges are Disbursed Throughout the Business Curriculum)
- 18. Requirements Pick two micro-credentials to complete Provide the evidence
- 19. Results
- 20. Results Students struggled to understand what micro-credentials were They struggled with finding evidence Struggled to connect the classroom theory to authentic context in the internship For example, the operationalization chart Students struggled to provide satisfactory evidence Students did not submit all components for the badge usually missing the narrative
- 21. Implications Have the department add badges to core courses Have the faculty assist students in their courses to locate evidence Criteria or requirements that we are using, are items that the students have heard in their courses For example, the design thinking model Adjust the rubrics to be more open collaborative rubric