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THE DIGITAL BADGE & CTECS’ WORKPLACE READINESS SKILLS ASSESSMENT NACTEi San Antonio, Texas May 14, 2015
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THE DIGITAL BADGE & CTECS’ WORKPLACE READINESS SKILLS
ASSESSMENT
NACTEi
San Antonio, Texas
May 14, 2015
DID YOU SAY DIGITAL BADGER?
OUTLINE
I. Digital badges and what they do
II. Reasons why badges work so well with CTECS assessments
III. The CTECS Workplace Readiness Skills Assessment
IV. The CTECS WRS pilot
V. Identifying useful data
VI. Other manifestations
INTRO VIDEO From Mozilla Open Badges http://community.openbadges.org/
DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY
Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen—The Innovator’s Dilemma
“Within 14 years, half of all universities may be in bankruptcy.”
DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY
Sixty percent of the 1,900 people who participated in the
Extreme Networks digital badge survey at EDUCAUSE 2014
believe that badges will either entirely replace diplomas and course certificates, or be used in
combination with them.“A game-changing strategy” that could lead
to “a quantum leap forward in education
reform.”
-- U. S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan
WHO IS CTECS? Career and Technical Education Consortium of States (CTECS)
Established in 1973
501c3, not-for-profit organization
Consortium of states and partners
Nationally recognized for its expertise in developing standards and assessment systems based on a valid occupational analysis process.
The consortium model allows CTECS to connect the best resources and practices from participating partners and members by identifying dynamic relationships and benefits for all.
CTECS TECHNICAL ASSESSMENT DESIGN MODEL
Establish Stakeholders, TSA Needs Assessment, and TAC
Determine Priorities for Elements to be Developed, i.e., CompetenciesStandardsItem BanksAssessments
Collect and Analyze Existing Elements(R & D), i.e.,CompetenciesStandardsItem BanksAssessments
Adopt or Adapt and Validate Existing Item Banks and Develop New Items (all correlated to Standards)
Pilot Assessments via E-SESS Online Test System.
Perform Item Analysis, and Cut-Score.
Implement Statewide Assessments
Adopt, Adapt,Develop, and Validate Industry Standards
Perform Continuous Improvement on Assessments and Testing System
WHY DO BADGES WORK WELL WITH CTECS?
-Online and optional
-Application process for retroactive
-CTECS assessments are aligned to standards that involve employee input, and our assessments use an industry survey to guide our item selections, closing the gap between the workplace and the classroom on a five-year cycle, conditionally.
-CTECS assessments are endorsed by departments of education rather than by obscure experts of questionable credentials—credibility is the one key downside for independent issuers, but there is a clear advantage for CTECS assessments.
THE WRS LIST IS THE BEST IN THE U.S. AND BEYOND
Universal skills and behaviors targeted to the needs of the
modern workplace
Based on 25 years of local and national research, business
and industry input, and experience
Accompanied by free, web-based curriculum
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RESOURCES FOR THE WRS LISTThe current WRS list (http://www.cteresource.org/attachments/atb/WRSRepositoryFiles/WRSList.pdf)
The Virginia Workplace Readiness Skills Repository
WRS Assessment Blueprint
Sample test questions for each of the 21 Workplace Readiness Skills
Frequently asked questions, FAQ
WRS instructional resources at CTE Resource Center
ESCR website: http://cte-escr.org/ and Introductory Movie about these resources
Virginia Department of Education, Office and Career and Technical Education Services
Weldon Cooper Center, Demographics Research Group, University of Virginia11
CTECSCertificate
Students Online test
1. Pilot group was identified.
2. TSAs provided student emails as
part as our online test registration
records.
3. CTECS verified test results and sent
notification to Achievery (provider).
4. Achievery sent an email to students
with instructions on how to claim
their digital badges and share
them.
5. Retroactive badge awards will
operate the same way.
THE PILOT
Badge Provider
CTECSCertificate
1. A window is being added to the online
testing process that allows students to
request the badge by entering their
emails directly.
2. TFI automatically sends these requests to
our provider via the provider’s API.
3. The provider automatically sends an
email to students with instructions on how
to claim their digital badges and share
them.
Fully AutomatedBy Fall 2015
Students
CTECS BADGE PROVIDER
o A Pro-level subscription (first year)
o Help with creating/issuing the badge
o Compatibility with Open Badge Infrastructure
o The ability to embed details behind the badge: describing the WRS, endorsements, personalization, validation/verification
o Data and social sharing reports
o Custom messaging and bulk awarding
THE STUDENT PROCESS
Once verified, students will be able to
o download/upload the digital badge
o share the digital badge on social networking sites
o embed the digital badge on websites or digital resumes
o push the digital badge to Mozilla Backpack where it can be stacked with others.
TRACKING DATA
Our provider tracks data and allows us to access reports on awarded badges
o How many have been claimed and when (retroactive and automatic)
o How claimed badges are used by earners (where are they posted/embedded)
o Are shared badges accessed/clicked on?
o What can data tell us about badges and skills earned?
THE FUTURE What’s next: the answer lies
within the data
BADGES FOR REFORM & IMPROVEMENT
Think about how badges could improve existing systems:
o Think about DOEs as issuers and consumers/viewers of badges
o Tracking competency sets within all badge options
o Finding the skills gap, recalibrating the pipeline
o Providing summative and formative options
o Sharing badge options/portfolios externally for modeling pathways that work (not dependent on individual student data)
o Creating articulation and dual credit
o Using badge creation and issuing for teacher recertification and earning for internal professional development
THE STUDENT LEVEL
Educational requirements and skill expectations become more evident as the system grows. Students are able to mix and match badge options to prove they know how to do the job.
o Badge earning and storage in one location
o Badge earning is incentivized
o Portability and exposure is increased
o Use of badges to unlock other badges (prerequisites)
o Viewing statistical trends by career pathway or job title
o Course selection
THE TEACHER LEVEL
With state approval, teachers may award badges for
o Courses and units within courses
o Projects
o School-to-work experiences and infusion units
o Community service and extras (through student organization participation)
o Badges for artifacts, presentations, productions
THE STATE/MEMBER LEVEL
Departments of education would be interested in the bigger picture
o Maintain the state protocols for awarding badges
o Connect badges to courses and career pathways
o Opportunity to create super-badges and a tiered badging system
o Helps refine course standards/competencies
o Helps track competencies as badges
o Student follow up
o Collaboration between academic and CTE programs
https://vimeo.com/31574890 (technological look at badges and the
ecosystem) from Badges with Competition, Mobile Digital Arts, 2012.
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