Understanding Cognitive Skills and Content
Cognitive Skills
What are Cognitive Skills?
Cognitive Skills Rubric.
Cognitive skills are those that apply to every subject area and the real world, such as asking questions, researching, identifying patterns and relationships, and speaking and listening.
The Cognitive Skills Rubric was designed and built into the Summit Learning Platform in collaboration with the SCALE team at Stanford, whose mission is to improve instruction and learning through the design and development of innovative, educative, state-of-the-art performance assessments and by building the capacity of schools to use these assessments in thoughtful ways, to promote student, teacher, and organizational learning.
The rubric spans 4th grade through pre-professional programs, and helps students not only understand how they’re doing, but also understand that they can transfer these valuable skills from subject to subject, and achieve mastery day-by-day, year-by-year as they work toward college and career readiness.
Competency-Based Learning
Competency-based learning refers to systems of instruction, assessment, grading, and academic reporting that are based on students demonstrating that they have learned the knowledge and skills they are expected to learn as they progress through their education.
What are Cognitive Skills?
- Cognitive skills are deeper learning skills that each project is built around
- Cognitive skills are skills that students need to develop in order to be college and career ready
- Examples of cognitive skills are:
- Justifying/constructing an explanation
- Multimedia in oral presentation
- Synthesizing multiple sources
- Content is discreet pieces of information that students need to know
- Specific content is associated with each project
- Content is divided into 2 types:
- Power focus area- core content that every child must learn in order to finish a course and be college- ready
- Additional focus area- related, extra and sometimes advanced content for students who are excited about a subject
- Examples of content:
- Function and structure of a cell
- Understanding the 13th, 14th and 15th amendment to the Constitution
Cognitive Skills Rubric.
Cognitive skills are those that apply to every subject area and the real world, such as asking questions, researching, identifying patterns and relationships, and speaking and listening.
The Cognitive Skills Rubric was designed and built into the Summit Learning Platform in collaboration with the SCALE team at Stanford, whose mission is to improve instruction and learning through the design and development of innovative, educative, state-of-the-art performance assessments and by building the capacity of schools to use these assessments in thoughtful ways, to promote student, teacher, and organizational learning.
The rubric spans 4th grade through pre-professional programs, and helps students not only understand how they’re doing, but also understand that they can transfer these valuable skills from subject to subject, and achieve mastery day-by-day, year-by-year as they work toward college and career readiness.
Competency-Based Learning
Competency-based learning refers to systems of instruction, assessment, grading, and academic reporting that are based on students demonstrating that they have learned the knowledge and skills they are expected to learn as they progress through their education.
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