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High-Quality CTE: Student Assessment

CTE curriculum lends itself to authentic, relevant and creative forms of assessment. Instruments, when skillfully designed, selected and implemented, can be defining aspects of the CTE experience. A robust assessment system, built on valid and reliable assessments, provides students discrete feedback on industry-aligned knowledge, skills and abilities. For this reason, Student Assessment is one of ACTE's 12 elements of high-quality CTE within the ACTE Quality CTE Program of Study Framework®.

This course covers general and CTE-specific strategies for multiple forms of formative and summative performance-based assessments across cognitive, psychomotor and affective learning domains, including how technical, academic and employability skills are assessed. An outcome of this course is for CTE educators to understand how to align assessment across the entire career pathway, from secondary to postsecondary to industry. Students then have opportunities across the pathway to develop a body of learning evidence that directly correlates to earning valued industry credentials.