Untapped Talent: Can Better Testing and Data Accelerate Creativity in Learning and Societies?

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December 12 to 17, 2015 Schloss Leopoldskron, Salzburg, Austria Untapped Talent: Can Better Testing and Data Accelerate Creativity in Learning and Societies? SALZBURG, DECEMBER 12 TO 17 2015

SERIES OVERVIEW Why this topic and why now? TRANSFORMING EDUCATION FOR To identify talent and foster success across society, assessment TOMORROW’S WORLD science and practice along with predictive analytics will need to This will be the first session become drivers for change. in a major interdisciplinary This session will focus on the current gap between standardized assessments series on re-shaping and the need to educate and measure for 21st century skills of creativity, critical education to prepare for thinking, communication and collaboration, from early childhood through the societies and jobs of formal education and beyond. It will explore the power of data of all sorts – data tomorrow. exhaust and predictive analytics as well as educational testing – to reveal new New technologies are pathways for people to develop these skills, and access work in a transforming taking us faster towards labor market. Particular attention needs to go to marginalized groups at risk of a post-industrial world, exclusion across generations. This session will specifically address the growing even in emerging and demand for interdisciplinary practice and education, which depends on a mix of least-developed economies. divergent and convergent thinking at the heart of creativity. Current teaching systems and metrics are being called into question. Key Themes and Questions Young people urgently • In what ways can formal and informal assessment be used as a driver of need skills and support positive change throughout learners’ lives in education and beyond? networks to realize their • Which are the most promising new models of assessment, and what makes potential and flourish them credible? throughout their life-paths • Moving beyond the old industrial model of sorting, how can learners be and across the social more fully engaged so that a better measure is taken of their potential? spectrum. • How do we best address the deficit in empirical evidence around measurement of creativity and interdisciplinary and critical thinking? And around emotional components and social/empathetic skills? SESSION PARTNERS • How far can predictive analytics alert school and college leaders to the true potential and also the challenges which student populations and individuals face, particularly among lower income groups? • What are the privacy and other regulatory implications of gathering data from students‘ apps and online activity – for instance in creating “digital dashboards” – indicating whether they are on track or not? • How might such digital assessment further empower students across the Educational Testing Service age and social spectrums to understand and manage their own learning better, diagnosing where difficulties lie and what to do about them, as we move towards the world (as in health) of the quantified self? • In what ways can we link formal assessment results with big data to understand what works best for individuals, communities, employers and populations? • How can we move on from assessing skills and knowledge to testing individuals’ potential to adapt and innovate in interdisciplinary settings and across sectors? SALZBURG GLOBAL SEMINAR | Untapped Talent: Can better testing and data accelerate creativity in learning and societies? Session 558 | DECEMBER 12 TO 17, 2015

• In what ways can employers and others identify informal learning and RELATED SESSIONS talent, which has not been revealed through formal education, particularly Optimizing Talent Series among more marginalized groups? Closing Education and Social • What do we need to better link science, data and policy, in order to tackle Mobility Gaps Worldwide I political and institutional blockages that delay the translation of cutting- SalzburgGlobal.org/go/472 edge research into action? Closing Education and Social Target Sectors and Participants Mobility Gaps Worldwide II: The Salzburg Global conversation will draw together current leaders and rising Basic Education Up to Age 18 talents across policy and practice in education; learners and young people in SalzburgGlobal.org/go/486 particular; leading thinkers around the emerging economic and technological landscape; those working at the nexus between creativity, culture, the arts, Closing Education and Social and neuroscience; assessment, predictive analytics and Big Data. We will Mobility Gaps Worldwide III: convene groups from high, middle and low income countries in country teams, Higher Education and each comprising four or five individuals representing different stakeholders Lifelong Learning and stages in learning from early childhood to higher education and beyond. SalzburgGlobal.org/go/495 Participants would debate the underlying principles, exchange best practice across borders – drawing on innovation from all round the world, North and Students at the Margins and South – and then, in their country teams, apply the general principles to the Institutions that Serve particular contexts and develop action plans for each country setting. Them: A Global Perspective SalzburgGlobal.org/go/537 Envisaged Outcomes and Follow-On Activities • The development of new approaches to assessment and data analytics, Early Childhood identifying the conditions under which they would yield the greatest Development and Education benefits to students, economies and societies, particularly among SalzburgGlobal.org/go/542 marginalized groups; • The translation of scientific understanding into policy change and best The Art of Neuroscience: practices; What are the Sources of • Mapping of the links between diverse sectors/disciplines and education, to Creativity and Innovation? help us understand and manage the complexity underlying a sustainable, SalzburgGlobal.org/go/547 effective and flourishing educational system – applying the learning derived from neuro-science, for instance, or the analytical power of data exhaust; • Cross-border learning and transmission of best practice in innovation in education, transformation of systems and cross-sectoral collaboration; • Ongoing networking and collaborations among participants and the FOR MORE info. PLEASE CONTACT: institutions they represent as the transformation of education unfolds in John Lotherington the years ahead; Program Director • Integrating the findings from this session into Salzburg Global’s ongoing jlotherington@ series on Transforming Education for Tomorrow’s World. SalzburgGlobal.org OR VISIT: SalzburgGlobal.org/go/558 Salzburg Global Seminar

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