Assessing soft skills in PBL
Kelli McGraw,
Aug 29, 2016
As is so often the case, an answer to what appears to be a simple questions results in layers of complexity. Even the question itself bears examining (is it a marketing ploy? for example). It is essentially this: should problem-based learning employ an assessment grid to evaluate soft skills? The answer takes us through four sets of resources, each of which merits more investigation on its own:
- the Essential Fluencies website "as an alternative set of 'soft skills'"
- the General Capabilities in the Australian Curriculum
- the Buck Institute for Education (BIE) rubrics
- the Partnership for 21st century thinking 4 Cs research series
When I saw 'essential fluencies' the first thing I thought of were my own 'critical literacies'. It reminds me that all of this thinking has been done before and though the approaches are very different I should be sure I understand what's already out there before proposing to change it. I also remarked to myself as I read through these the degree of commercial and private sector involvement in the development and marketing of these models.
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