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  Alternative Assessment and Technology. ERIC Digest.
Altering assessment practices is likely to affect curriculum, teaching methods, and students' understanding of the meaning of their work.
A newly designed assessment system must accurately measure and promote the complex thinking and learning goals that are known to be critical to students' academic success and to their eventual sustained achievement and contribution to their communities.
The view of assessment carried over from the last century is that there are underlying mental traits and that a test is a sample behavior which provides an imperfect measure of the underlying characteristic the test was meant to measure.
www.ericdigests.org /1994/technology.htm   (1917 words)

  
 Learning With Technology Profile Tool
Assessments are meaningful, challenging experiences that involve presenting students with an authentic task, project, or investigation, and then observing, interviewing and/or examining their artifacts and presentations to assess what they actually know and can do.
Assessment standards and tools are developed by the teacher and fully explained to students before they begin their work.
Assessment standards and tools are discussed, created, agreed upon, and used by both the teacher and students to judge and report on the quality of their products and performances.
www.ncrtec.org /capacity/profile/profwww.htm   (3673 words)

  
 Technology assessment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Technology assessment (TA, German Technikfolgenabschätzung) is the study and evaluation of new technologies.
Also, technology assessment recognizes the fact that scientists normally are not trained ethicists themselves and accordingly ought to be very careful when passing ethical judgement on their own, or their colleagues´, new findings, projects, or work in progress.
Technology assessment assumes a global perspective and is future-oriented rather than backward-looking or anti-technological.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Technology_assessment   (285 words)

  
 ITA: What is TA?
Technology assessment provides input for the elaboration of technology policies which are not oriented exclusively towards technical efficiency and economic rationality but which also consider the social and ecological consequences of the introduction of specific technologies.
"Technology Assessment" (TA) uses an interdisciplinary approach in its systematic and comprehensive analysis of the possible consequences of the use of particular technologies (not necessarily "new" ones).
There is no such thing as a "technology assessment method" as such, because it is not a single method but the variety of methods – or method mix – and specific procedure that characterise a successful investigation.
www.oeaw.ac.at /ita/ebene3/e2-1a.htm   (1113 words)

  
 Technology Assessment and Reporting
Assessment of student progress is an important part of teaching and learning.
The assessment ideas are linked to the activities that appear in the units and as such, are examples of authentic assessment.
In the technology key learning area, it is important to balance the assessment tasks across the four phases of the technology process.
www.eduweb.vic.gov.au /curriculumatwork/technology/te_assess.htm   (1370 words)

  
 Technology & Assessment
In particular, the authentic assessment strategies that are used with Internet-based activities are often in conflict with the usual process by which the schools report student grades.
Ideally, the fundamental role of assessment is to provide authentic and meaningful feedback for improving student learning, instructional practice, and educational options.
Depending on its assessment purposes, a portfolio may contain a range of work over time; work selected by you, your students, or both; samples selected to show how the learning objectives were met; student self-reflection; your feedback; work-in-progress; best pieces; unsuccessful pieces; group and individual work; and rough drafts.
carbon.cudenver.edu /~lsherry/courses/assess.html   (2845 words)

  
 Technology Assessment
Also includes the assessment of costs to determine whether equipment is appropriate and excluding any that does not provide any benefit to the patient and promoting that which does.
Decline — as the technology is increasingly supplanted by superior new technology.
Higher rate of technology has also resulted by an increase in the specialty professions of physicians who are likely to use the tools available to them to perform the greatest maximum of health care services.
www.unlv.edu /faculty/ccochran/HCA202_2005/HCA202_2003/Technology.htm   (1062 words)

  
 Assessment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The assessment is based on the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) guidelines for the integration of technology into teaching and learning.
The Idaho Technology Portfolio consists of eight required entries, each of which asks for direct evidence of the educator's accomplishments relative to the ISTE standards.
Documentation of the use of technology in teaching and learning serves as the focus of the portfolio and the source of required entries.
ed.isu.edu /COEassessment/asItpa.htm   (180 words)

  
 Health Care: Technology Assessment Subdirectory Page
These technology assessments are used by CMS to inform its national coverage decisions for the Medicare program as well as provide information to Medicare carriers.
Technology assessments are based on a systematic review of the literature, along with appropriate qualitative and quantitative methods of synthesizing data from multiple studies.
Technology assessments may be done in-house by AHRQ staff, or they may be done in collaboration with one of our Evidence-based Practice Centers.
www.ahrq.gov /clinic/techix.htm   (661 words)

  
 Computer Strategies - Staff Development
This assessment instrument is designed to help you create your individual learning plan for technology use as it relates to you and your curriculum.
Technology is just like a pencil or a book.
I have found ways to adapt technology to fit the curriculum and align with state or district content standards.
www.compstrategies.com /staffdevelopment/cue/rubric.htm   (615 words)

  
 School Success - Technology and Assessment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
It is important that we be able to assess technology's effectiveness in improving education.
Schools have become the target for an unprecedented technology binge that is too often about decoration and status rather than achievement.
By annually reevaluating your district or school's current technology status, stakeholders are able to assess the progress of your technology implementation effort.
www.cccoe.k12.ca.us /assessment/school.htm   (521 words)

  
 Technology Assessment - Matches technology with user needs
A Technology Assessment provides an analysis of the technology needs and of the technology which support the needs of a current or future training system or simulation requirements.
A VSAT technology assessment may be applied to any simulation application including such applications as research simulators.
Technology assessments are tailored to the needs of a particular program and may include:
www.virtualsimulation.com /services/technology.htm   (360 words)

  
 Learning.com: Online Teaching Technology, E-Learning Curriculum
Learning.com’s proven online technology literacy curriculum, assessment tools and professional development services are designed to empower students to reach their true potential in the 21st Century.
Our proven online technology literacy curriculum, EasyTech, helps Kindergarten through 8th-grade students develop essential computer and technology skills to enhance their learning of math, language arts, science and social studies subjects.
Our technology literacy and e-learning services assist children in Kindergarten, as well as in first (1st), second (2nd), third (3rd), fourth (4th), fifth (5th), sixth (6th), seventh (7th), and eighth (8th) grades.
www.learning.com   (293 words)

  
 www4teachers | Integrating Techology | Technology Assessment
An Educator's Guide to Evaluating The Use of Technology in Schools and Classrooms: aguide was developed for the U.S. Department of Education by the American Institutes for Research in conjunction with its formative evaluation of the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund.
Technology Integration Steps: gives a technology integration plan in eight steps for you to keep in mind the resources you have available and your students' skills.
Technology in American Schools: Seven Dimensions for Gauging Progress: is intended for policymakers, educators, and technology directors to use as a road map when attempting to bring up the learning levels of students through technology.
www.4teachers.org /4teachers/intech/techassess.shtml   (656 words)

  
 Technology Assessment: An Effective Resource for Evidence-Based Managers - VA Technology Assessment Program (VATAP)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Technology as it is used in health care is defined as applied knowledge, in other words: any intervention used in health promotion, prevention and rehabilitation.
"Technologies" may include vaccines, pharmaceuticals, devices, procedures, and the organizational and support systems within which health is protected and maintained.
Technology assessment in health care (HTA) is a multidisciplinary field of policy analysis that uses the best available scientific evidence on the medical, social, ethical, and economic implications of interventions used in health care.
www.va.gov /vatap   (195 words)

  
 Technology Assessment
Definition of technology assessment – the process that examines the available evidence to form a conclusion as to the merits or role of a particular technology in relation to its possible use, purchase or reimbursement in current medical practice.
But continued improvement in health care technology has not come cheap and technology is frequently cited as one of the major cost drivers.
The potential of technology is that it can narrow the gap in health care between the rich and poor.
www.unlv.edu /Faculty/ccochran/HCA_701/Lectures/Technology.htm   (2877 words)

  
 Education World® Technology Integration, Assessment, and No Child Left Behind
John Bailey, director of educational technology for the U.S. Department of Education, recently participated in a teleconference called Enhancing Education Through Technology, one of a series of teleconferences on the NCLB Act being sponsored by Plato Learning.
The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) has put a lot of effort into setting technology standards for teachers, administrators, and students; now it is beginning work to assess some of those competencies.
Adequate yearly progress, report cards, assessments, identifying schools in need of improvement, disaggregating data, evaluating program impact, and providing richer data for analysis purposes all are different opportunities for technology to help drive decision-making and to help inform instruction at the local level.
www.education-world.com /a_tech/tech171.shtml   (1883 words)

  
 Technology Literacy Assessment - Chapter Summary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Technology Literacy Assessment (TLA) Work Group began answering the key questions by first developing a common definition of "technology literacy." They then developed a set of criteria states could use when assessing technology literacy levels of students and a continuum of assessment strategies for gathering this data.
The TLA Work Group defined technology literacy as the ability to responsibly use appropriate technology to communicate, solve problems, and access, manage, integrate, evaluate, and create information to improve learning in all subject areas and to acquire lifelong knowledge and skills in the 21st Century.
An assessment continuum was also created by the group in an effort to assist education leaders in connecting with appropriate avenues for collecting data, or finding evidence to initiate or implement an effective assessment process.
www.setda.org /NLItoolkit/TLA/tla01.htm   (412 words)

  
 Technology Assessment - UNEP P & C
Environmental Technology Assessment (EnTA) is a tool to help decision-makers understand the likely impact of the use of a new or existing technology.
The assessment process looks at the costs of the technology, the monetary benefits, and its environmental, social and political impacts.
IETC's main role is to promote the application of Environmentally Sound Technologies (ESTs) to address urban environmental problems, such as sewage, air pollution, solid waste and noise, and the management of freshwater resources to developing countries and countries with economies in transition.
www.uneptie.org /pc/pc/tools/enta.htm   (355 words)

  
 NETS Online Technology Assessment
These assessment resources were developed to help support educators of middle school students as they worked towards the 8th grade technology literacy requirement.
The assessment details page identifies which applications are used in each assessment, the ISTE NETS•S performance indicators they can help to measure, and specific activities performed during the assessment.
This assessment is provided for use by teachers with their students as a formative assessment to assist both teachers and students in efforts to develop foundation educational technology skills for students.
www.iste.org /inhouse/resources/asmt/msiste/index.cfm?Section=NETS_OTA   (371 words)

  
 TEC Assessment Index
Each assessment is a comprehensive evaluation of the clinical effectiveness and appropriateness of a given medical technology.
The TEC Program uses five criteria to assess whether a technology improves health outcomes such as length of life, quality of life and functional ability.
TEC Assessments are copyrighted material and contain proprietary information that is intended for Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans and other subscribers to the TEC Program.
www.bcbs.com /tec/tecassessments.html   (323 words)

  
 Technology Self-Assessment Form
This technology assessment form may be duplicated and used within a school district provided $25 is paid to Network 609.
Related Questions: If technologies are basic tools for managing information in an Age of Information, they should be used broadly, within the art classrooms, the English classrooms, the vocational classrooms and all others.
Studies of schools have shown that technology usage is often centered in special "niches" and departments such as a computer department or the media center and the usage is often concentrated in the hands of a narrow group of pioneers or champions.
www.fno.org /techsurvey.html   (1548 words)

  
 Sign up for your Complimentary* Small Business Technology Assessment
Sign up for a complimentary* small business technology assessment from a Microsoft Small Business Specialist and find out how technology can help take your business to the next level.
The Technical Assessment: This stage of the assessment will focus on your current IT set-up, identify gaps and establish what sort of IT system is required in order to achieve your business goals.
Depending on the complexity of a customer's business, a technology assessment may take longer than two hours to complete; up to the first two hours is complimentary*.
www.microsoft.com /australia/smallbusiness/assessment/default.mspx   (439 words)

  
 ITPA Preparation Information
This performance assessment can be taken at your own school site once a local monitor has been trained and approved by LCSC and given permission to administer the assessment by the local building principal.
The Idaho Technology Performance Assessment was developed, through the collaboration of the University of Idaho and Lewis-Clark State College, to assess two levels of competency for teachers and administrators: computer use and integration of technology into instruction and curriculum.
The assessment addresses the ISTE technology standards for teachers and consists of five computer-based tasks designed to take from 30 to 50 minutes each, however the individual has 70 minutes (Task 3 is allocated 75 minutes) to complete each task.
edudiv.lcsc.edu /itpa/prepho.htm   (1818 words)

  
 ATA-Resources-AT in K-12-Mini Assessment
Technology is a tool for learning, not the focus.
Students use Assistive Technology outside of the classroom in a pullout-related service.
The assessment and training resource pages are great places to start.
www.ataccess.org /resources/atk12/miniassessment.html   (528 words)

  
 International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care
The International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care serves as a forum for the wide range of health policy makers and professionals interested in the economic, social, ethical, medical and public health implications of health technology.
It covers the development, evaluation, diffusion and use of health technology, as well as its impact on the organization and management of health care systems and public health.
In addition to general essays and research reports, regular columns on technology assessment reports and thematic sections are published.
www.cambridge.org /journals/journal_catalogue.asp?mnemonic=thc   (194 words)

  
 District Technology Assessment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Following is the Executive Summary of the 2000/2001 District Technology Assessment, released on May 14, 2001.
This is the first annual follow-up to an independent evaluation of technology that was conducted by Sun Associates (www.sun-associates.com) in February 2000.
That process resulted in a district technology assessment that was presented to the Board of Education on February 14, 2000.
www.fcps.net /edtech/suneval.htm   (659 words)

  
 Assessment Tools
Assess use of technology in curriculum and instruction, classroom management, communications, and professional growth and leadership.
Designed to assist groups on improving skills through assessment and collaborative measures; Surveys are designed and used to track progress over time; Users can compare individual results to the group and locate experts within the group.
The School Technology and Readiness Chart is a self-assessment tool to identify and define profiles for the integration and use of educational technology; Serves as a benchmark against which to track progress; Includes K-12 STaR Chart and Teacher Preparation STaR Chart.
www.tcet.unt.edu /START/assess/tools.htm   (453 words)

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