The Finnish ATS STEM team’s project dissemination work will continue at the 2022 ITK Conference, Finland's largest digital education event in Hämeenlinna, from 5 to 7 October 2022. The conference theme this year is “What, how, where - new clothes for learning”. The team has...
Presenting ATS STEM model and implementation of digital assessment On 7 April 2022 Iida-Maria Peltomaa and Vuokko Kangas shared insights from the ATS STEM project in Finland as part of an ongoing Interactive Technology in Education ITK webinar series. alongside Perttu Hämäläinen from the STEAM in...
The Finnish National Research Report for the Assessment of Transversal Skills in STEM project (.pdf). A brief summary of the conclusions and proposals from the report are as follows: The assessment criteria and rubrics for the transversal competences could be improved to be clearer and more...
Introduction My name is Vuokko Kangas, and I have been involved in guiding teachers to organize interdisciplinary learning modules according to the ATS-STEM model, and have acted as a teacher mentor as well. In the Spring of 2021, we carried out a couple of ATS STEM...
The Finnish team’s project dissemination continued on Thursday and Friday at the ITK (Interactive Technology in Education) conference for 2021. National research coordinator Iida-Maria Peltomaa and teacher mentor Vuokko Kangas delivered a very well attended conference presentation entitled “STE(A)M as a learning tool, inspiration and enabler...
Thank you again to Heikki Vimpari and Sanna Mäkelä from Ylikiiminki School, Oulu for presenting “The Lifecycle Of Metals” and "Introduction to Assessment in Finland and City of Oulu" as part of Zoom In! Fifth Pilot Schools Networking Event, alongside teachers from Ireland and Slovenia. This...
The Finnish partner of the ATS STEM (Assessment of Transversal Competences in STEM) project from Tampere University returned to Hämeenlinna today to continue project dissemination at the ITK (Interactive Technology in Education) conference for 2021. The ITK conference is the largest digital education and learning...
Today, the Finnish team’s project dissemination continued online at the Finnish Educational Research Association (FERA) annual Conference on Education. The topic of this year's conference is "Education, Learning and Wellbeing of Individuals and Communities", which is focused on intertwining of issues related to learning and wellbeing...
Today the Finnish team’s dissemination work continued online at a pre-seminar to the Finnish Educational Research Association (FERA) Conference on Education, The pre-seminar was organized by the Teaching and Assessing Transversal Competences in Formal and Informal Learning Environments project, funded by the Ministry of Education...
The Finnish partner of the ATS STEM (Assessment of Transversal Competences in STEM) project from Tampere University continued with efforts to disseminate the project on November 9 and 10 at the Digikilta seminar in Hämeenlinna. Digikilta is funded by the Finnish Finnish National Agency for Education...