Assessment of 21st Century Skills: Use of Creative Story Writing for Assessing Graphs

Garima Bansal

doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-8310-4.ch010

Assessment of 21st Century Skills: Use of Creative Story Writing for Assessing Graphs

Garima Bansal

Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)

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Abstract

This chapter describes an action research in which creative story writing was used to assess student understanding of graph construction. Students were encouraged to write stories involving motion and visually depict verbal descriptions of stories in the form of tables and line graphs. Student work revealed several misconceptions held by students vis-à-vis writing motion-based stories, tabulation of data, plotting of graphs, and establishing congruence between stories and graphs. This study suggests several feedback measures that can be used by teachers to rectify these misconceptions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Cases on Global Innovative Practices for Reforming Education
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8310-4.ch010
Publication status	Published - Jan 2022

Keywords

21st century skills
action research
creative writing
graph construction
student assessment

Disciplines

Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
Science and Mathematics Education

Access to Document

10.4018/978-1-7998-8310-4.ch010Licence: Unspecified

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