Huffington Post has this really interesting article on just the sort of assessment we Critical Skills folks talk about. There’s more where that came from, including this from the Forum for Education and Democracy and this from FairTest.
On the larger front, the good folks from epic (the Educational Policy Improvement Center) have already started thinking about how technology can answer the “how do we do performance assessments on a larger scale?” question. Plan to spend some time there- there’s a lot to look at.
The Critical Skills Classroom 