Salzburg Learning Symposium, Untapped Talent: Can Better Testing and Data Accelerate Creativity in Learning and Societies? (December 12 -19, 2015)

这项提案要求资助八名美国科学家参加萨尔茨堡全球研讨会上的一次会议，题为“未开发的人才：可以更好地测试和数据加速学习和社会中的创造力”。为期五天的会议主要关注当前需要开发评估，以衡量对21世纪工作场所的成功至关重要的技能。目前可用的评估不足以利用这些重要技能，并且没有与如何加强优势领域和加强薄弱领域的教学计划充分联系起来。研讨会的目标是为人们发展重要的学习技能和学习态度开辟新的途径，特别注意在面临世代排斥风险的边缘群体中确定和发展这些技能。本期会议将专门针对日益增长的评估需求，为教育实践提供信息，帮助教育工作者实现个性化教学和改善学习。参加这次会议将允许分享由美国国家科学基金会S学习科学中心资助的十年认知和神经科学研究的见解。这将有助于在制定创新评估的行动计划中使用关于学习和评估的前沿研究。出席会议的科学家将分享关于STEM成功的可塑性和重要性的知识领域的信息，特别是空间学习，以及除了评估知识和认知技能外，评估学习态度的重要性。他们将展示评估与教学相结合的最新进展，以及使用大数据使评估高效和信息化。科学家和评估专业人员之间的这些互动也将引发新的研究问题，即人们如何学习，以及评估设计和使用如何以最佳方式识别和培养人才。萨尔茨堡全球论坛有着召开国际会议的良好记录，通过吸引来自科学家、教育从业者、政策制定者、政府机构、行业领袖、企业家和其他利益攸关方的不同支持者和专业知识来应对广泛的全球挑战。美国科学家参加这次会议将使关于学习的研究能够传播给不同的受众，而不是在传统的科学/专业会议上通常代表

This proposal requests funding for eight American scientists to attend a meeting at the SalzburgGlobal Symposium entitled, "Untapped Talent: Can Better Testing and Data AccelerateCreativity in Learning and Societies" The five day conference focuses on the current need todevelop assessments that measure skills critical for success in the 21st century workplace. Currently available assessments are not adequate to tap these important skills, and have not been sufficiently connected to instructional plans about how to build on areas of strength and bolster areas of weakness. The goal of the symposium is to develop new pathways for people to develop important skills and attitudes about learning, with particular attention to identifying and developing these skills in marginalized groups at risk of exclusion across generations. This session will specifically address the growing demand for assessments that inform educational practice, helping educators individualize instruction and improve learning. Participation at this meeting will allow the sharing of insights from a decade of cognitive and neuroscience research funded by NSF?s Science of Learning Centers. This will facilitate the use of cutting edge research on learning and assessment in action plans for the development of innovative assessments. The scientists attending the conference will share information about domains of knowledge that are both malleable and important for STEM success, notably spatial learning, and the importance of assessing attitudes about learning in addition to assessing knowledge and cognitive skills. They will present recent advances in integrating assessments with instruction, and the use of Big Data to make assessments efficient and informative.These interactions between scientists and assessment professionals will also stimulate new research questions about how people learn and the ways that assessment design and use can optimally be used to identify and foster talent. The Salzburg Global Forum has a well-established record of convening international meetings to tackle a wide-range of global challenges through engagement of diverse constituencies and expertise from scientists, education practitioners, and policy makers, government institutions, industry leaders, entrepreneurs and other stakeholders. Participation of the US scientists at this meeting will enable the dissemination of research about learning to a diverse audience, not generally represented in conventional scientific/professional meetings