Attaining Sustainable Development Using New Assessment Paradigm

Abstract

The global ambition today is the attainment of sustainable development. Many nations around the world have embraced the need for education to achieve sustainable development.Development requires citizens of different countries world over to be adequately empowered to enable meaningful contribution of their quota. Education has been identified as an instrument for planned and systematic intervention into socio-economic development but that is not without some conditions precedent. Some conditions involve making the education system effective to inculcate skills, citizenship values and entrepreneurship. The teachers’ competence in lesson delivery techniques and knowledge in comprehensive assessment to improve the citizens becomes imperative. This paper described what sustainable development entails.The targets and indictors of sustainable development are multidisciplinary, diverse array of teaching methods and assessment procedures would be involved to assess learning for improved performance of both students and teachers. Hence, the paper also highlighted the innovative assessment strategies which support learning for life in the diverse disciplines. Some recommendations were presented to help to revolutionize assessment practices for sustainable development.