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Svihla, Vanessa; Vye, Nancy; Brown, Megan; Phillips, Rachel; Gawel, Drue; Bransford, John – Education Canada, 2009
Today's students will require knowledge and skills that differ from those typically provided by schools. Comparisons of learning and assessments in informal, everyday settings (e.g., homes, businesses) with those that occur in typical school settings provide ample evidence that new assessment strategies are needed. Those comparisons reveal many…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Social Networks, Problem Solving, Comparative Analysis
Education Canada, 2007
The Junior G8 competition allows groups of young people from each of the G8 countries to have their voices heard on a global stage--the annual G8 summit. An international essay competition results in the selection of teams of students who travel to the G8 summit to provide a youth perspective on global issues. The 2006 competition focused on four…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Competition, High Schools, Student Attitudes