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Assessment of 21st Century Skills: Use of Creative Story Writing for Assessing Graphs
Cases on Global Innovative Practices for Reforming Education (2022)
  • Dr Garima Bansal, Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
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.
Keywords
  • action research,
  • creative writing,
  • student assessment,
  • graph construction,
  • 21st century skills
Publication Date
January, 2022
Editor
Sriya Chakravarti & Bistra Boukareva
Publisher
IGI Global
ISBN
9781799883128
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8310-4.ch010
Citation Information
Bansal, G. (2022). Assessment of 21st century skills: Use of creative story writing for assessing graphs. In S. Chakravarti & B. Boukareva (Eds.), Cases on Global Innovative Practices for Reforming Education (pp. 202–221). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8310-4.ch010