Adapting Assessment into policy and learning (ADAPT): Adoloscent 21st Century skills Project, 2023.
In continuation from the systems mapping of 2022, the implementers of ADAPT Uganda (MakCEES and JMERC) have recently concluded a two-days workshop at ResilientAfrica Network which was intended to make a Follow Up and conduct and Learning and Engagement session with the participants.
Dr. Angella Atukunda presented the findings of the systems mapping which was held in November, 2022 and the participants worked in groups to work out
a) why the current learning assessments in primary and secondary education are not intergrating the assessment of the 21st Century skills acquisition in learning assessments for primary and secondary schools’ learners.
b) the effects of not intergrating the assessments of the 21st Century skills in current learning assessments in primary and secondary education.
c) and how the current learning assessments in primary and secondary education can intergrate the assessment of the 21st Century skills aquistion in learning assessments for primary and secondary schools’ learners
and also how the learning assessments results can be used to impact plocy and practice in uganda.
The workshop embraced ideas reflecting on policies, resources flow, power dynamics and mental modes in the assessment of life skills and tools of assessment of 21st Century skills in Uganda with representatives from Uwezo Uganda, Luigi Guissani Institute of Higher Education, Komo Learning Centres, Busitema University, NCDC, Ministry of Education & Sports, Makerere University and Reli Uganda.
DAY TWO was dedicated to Learning and Engagement and attended by education enthusiasts from different educational bodies and organisations countrywide who brain stormed on the possible approaches to successfully administer the existing strategies aiming at uplifting the learners’ outcomes.
Some of the ideas which came to the table was putting empasis on training school headteachers and teachers more on the various values and skills to be passed on to the learners, conducting an aptitude and attitude test to for the teachers before deployments which help boost healthy teacher-student relationships since both would be passionate and envisioning brighter times ahead, a suggestion for an assessment awareness week to recognise the assessment bodies and individuals taking part in it, support them through trainings and CPDs, and this could be documented by the media so as to echo out more on the term assessment and its impact to a better education
