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This video explores the tensions between standardised testing and performance-based learning and advocates a move to “high-quality, localised assessment”. Project examples include students building robots, designing future schools and racing electric cars. The Urban Academy in New York City, which is part of a consortium of 32 schools, has replaced standardised testing with performance assessment with a motto “we support high standards, not high stakes tests”. Director Ann Cook says “we are interesting in students developing the ability to work with multiple perspectives, to be able to analyse evidence and to be able to critique…”

From Edutopia