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Assessment of transversal skills in STEM: from theory to practice in a large scale research project

Costello, Eamon orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-2775-6006, Brown, Mark orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-7927-6717, Butler, Deirdre orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-7166-3707, Girme, Prajakta orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-2612-5122, Kaya, Sila orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-2653-855X, Kirwan, Colette orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-3145-3574, McLoughlin, Eilish orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-7991-7134, O'Leary, Michael orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-6771-904X, Hartell, Eva, Lennholm, Helena, Jonsson, Sirkka, Ferntoft, Eva, Persson, Monika, Fernández-de-la-Igle, J. Carmen orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-8320-7239, Cebreiro-López, Beatriz orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-2064-915X, Latorre-Ruiz, Enrique, Viteli, Jarmo orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-2234-3509, Peltomaa, Iida-Maria and Paterson, Lachlan (2022) Assessment of transversal skills in STEM: from theory to practice in a large scale research project. In: Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, 11 Apr 2022, San Diego, CA, USA. ISBN 978-1-939797-61-2

Abstract
This paper presents an overview of a large scale research project involving teachers and students across eight European countries and involving eleven partner organizations. The project was focused on helping equip students with key transversal skills and competencies. We used integrated STEM as a site to ground the development of these interdisciplinary ways of thinking, being and doing and digital tools as ways to help teachers deepen and enhance their formative assessment practice. We present here an out line of research conducted to develop a framework for conceptualising integrated STEM skills and their assessment via digital tools. This framework identified a number of core competencies and ways to both design and assess for these skills using digital t ools. We also give an account of subsequent professional development with teachers and the piloting of developed teaching methods in schools. The next phase was the conduct of evaluations of our work according to a research methodology which aimed to ident ify best practices for scalable teaching. Some emergent findings and lessons learned along the way from two countries, Ireland and Sweden, are presented as examples here as we complete the analysis stage of the project. This paper aims to contribute to the conversations around interdisciplinary and integrated STEM skills, how they can be digitally assessed and to give an account of the workings of the associated large scale research project. Keywords: STEM, Integrated STEM, inservice teacher education, transversal skills
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Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:STEM; Integrated STEM; inservice teacher education; transversal skills
Subjects:Social Sciences > Education
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > NIDL (National Institute for Digital Learning)
DCU Faculties and Schools > Institute of Education > School of Policy & Practice
DCU Faculties and Schools > Institute of Education > School of STEM Education, Innovation, & Global Studies
Published in: Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2022, Proceedings. . Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). ISBN 978-1-939797-61-2
Publisher:Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
Official URL:https://www.learntechlib.org/p/220845/
Copyright Information:© 2022 Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:Cofunded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union
ID Code:27243
Deposited On:18 May 2022 16:18 by Thomas Murtagh . Last Modified 18 May 2022 16:18
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