Rex team lauded at Oxford int’l education conference
A Filipina researcher´s presentation was cited during the conference of the International Association on Educational Assessment, a gathering of researchers and professionals in the field of education and learning technologies held in the United Kingdom.
Filipina researcher Dr. Marilyn Balagtas was lauded by the conference keynote speaker Dr. Arthur Graesser, as being “very contemporary,” a citation which reflects the Philippine education sector´s ongoing forays into developing 21st-century learning methods and tools for today´s young learners.
Balagtas is current director of the Center for Research and Development in Education at the Philippine Normal University (PNU), the country´s foremost academic institution for training future educators. As a research consultant for the REX Institute for Student Excellence (RISE), the assessment arm of REX, Balagtas has worked to help REX Book Store Inc. gain insight on the latest trends and developments in learning technologies, as well as new approaches to teaching based on education research.
The paper, entitled “Development and Use of the 21st Century Standards-based Assessment for the K to 12 Curriculum: Towards Building a Database for Knowledge Creation,” was co-authored with two RISE officials, Danda Crimelda Garcia and Dexter Ngo.
The paper´s core idea of building an open and shared database for assessment methods, competencies, contexts and choices, was noted as “very innovative” by Rachel Sperring, session chair of the research panel.
The international conference was hosted by the Oxford University Center for Educational Assessment, with participants coming in from all over the globe.
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