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| Assessing New Literacies in Science and Mathematics |
| Focus Area: Technology |
| Provider: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates |
| Abstract: Authors Edys Quellmalz and Geneva Haertel from SRI International provide background on the potential for complex technologies to support the assessment of student content knowledge as well as technology proficiency. Background is given on research in cognitive science as well as assessment design and is related to a Coordinated ICT Assessment Framework used to develop prototype assessments. Chapter in D. J. Leu, Jr., J. Coiro, M. Knowbel, and C. Lankshear (Eds). Handbook of research on new literacies. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. |
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| Assessing Students with Disabilities: Moving Instruction Forward through Universal Design |
| URL: HTTP://WWW.IAETE.ORG/INSIGHT/ARTICLES.CFM?&ID=40 |
| Format: PDF, URL |
| Focus Area: Technology, Assessment |
| Provider: Edvantia |
| Abstract: Technology has long been faced with the challenge of providing equitable and customized learning opportunities to all students, and learning would have to include assessment. To date, many of the nation's large-scale assessments have done little to capitalize on the capacity of technology to provide these kinds of supports on a large scale to students that might best benefit from them. The team of Ted Hasselbring, Preston Lewis, and Margaret Bausch describe the efforts of one state in generating online assessment that provides a variety of technology-based supports for students with special needs, as well as the lessons they have learned for moving their work forward and replicating their successes with other large-scale assessments. |
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| Claims of Effectiveness: This report claims that students with disabilities, who are tested using an online assessment, perform better on assessments. The claim is based on a review of student achievement data and a survey. The authors acknowledge that more longitudinal data collection and empirical analyses are needed to verify the impact of online assessments. |
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| Beyond Technology Competency: A Vision of Information Communication Technology Literacy to Prepare Students for the 21st Century |
| URL: HTTP://WWW.IAETE.ORG/INSIGHT/ARTICLES.CFM?&ID=42 |
| Format: PDF, URL |
| Focus Area: Technology, Assessment |
| Provider: Edvantia |
| Abstract: When microcomputers began to become commonplace at the end of the last century, educators and policymakers responded with a call to action emphasizing that students and teachers alike develop technology proficiency. The rapid pace of development has changed what it means to be proficient with technology, however, and not only in terms of basic operations but in terms of communicating, collaborating, and competing in a global connected world. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills has worked to bring together leaders in education, business, and policy in order to push the nation's schools to prepare students for this new world. Ken Kay and Margaret Honey, two of the organization's leaders, describe their vision in which the nation's students develop and utilize these skills. They also outline a roadmap that can be used as a guide to help students achieve this vision. |
| Claims of Effectiveness: No claims of effectiveness pertain to this article, which is based on the authors' experience. |
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| Connecting with the Twenty-First Century: Technology in Support of Educational Reform |
| Format: Print |
| Focus Area: Technology |
| Provider: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) |
| Abstract: Although this article is from 1998, it represents a vision still yet to be realized for the integration of technology in schools today. Using an engaging multipart scenario of students and adults living and learning together, the authors use the scenario as a jumping-off point to describe the potential technologies have for supporting learning, such as connecting learning to home and parents, supporting project-based learning, and scaffolding learning, among others. |
| Claims of Effectiveness: No claims of effectiveness pertain to this article, which is based on the author's experience. |
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| Designing Assessments of Learning with Technology |
| Format: Print |
| Focus Area: Assessment, Technology |
| Provider: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group |
| Abstract: The article by Edys Quellmalz and Robert Kozma describes an approach to assess student performance on academic and applied problems during the use of information and communications technologies (ICT). The authors provide an assessment framework as well as the research and theory that support it. |
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| National Educational Technology Standards for Students: The Next Generation |
| URL: HTTP://WWW.ISTE.ORG/AM/TEMPLATE.CFM?SECTION=NETS |
| Format: Print, URL |
| Focus Area: Technology |
| Provider: International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) |
| Abstract: These are the six "refreshed" National Educational Technology Standards for Students released by ISTE. The refresh process involved input from hundreds of thousands of representatives from education, government, research, and the technology industry from across the globe and are the most recent version of the NETS-S since their original release in 1998. |
| Claims of Effectiveness: No claims of effectiveness pertain to this tool, which is based on a review of the literature and input from experts in the field. |
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| Online Assessments of Technology Literacy: The Perfect Petri Dish |
| URL: HTTP://WWW.IAETE.ORG/INSIGHT/ARTICLES.CFM?&ID=41 |
| Format: PDF, URL |
| Focus Area: Technology, Assessment |
| Provider: Edvantia |
| Abstract: The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) gave impetus to the movement to evaluate technology literacy by stating a federal goal that all students will demonstrate technology literacy by the end of the eighth grade, beginning in 2006. What sounds like a reasonable idea for schools that must prepare students to learn, live, and work in a technology-driven world has been a little difficult to bring to reality. Mary Axelson explores the work of national and international organizations that first had to come to agreement on just what is meant by technology and then how it might be assessed. Actual technology-based assessments that rely on simulations and that are available in several stages of development are profiled. |
| Claims of Effectiveness: No claims of effectiveness pertain to this report, which is based on the author's experience. |
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| Visions 2020.2: Student Views on Transforming Education and Training Through Advanced Technologies |
| URL: HTTP://WWW.ED.GOV/ABOUT/OFFICES/LIST/OS/TECHNOLOGY/PLAN/2004/SITE/D... |
| Format: PDF, URL |
| Focus Area: Technology |
| Provider: U.S. Departments of Commerce and Education |
| Abstract: In part, a response to the earlier 2020 Visions by the U.S. Department of Commerce and Education, the NetDay organization worked with these departments to compile this report on technology use from the students' perspective. In October and November 2004, NetDay sponsored its "Speak-Up Day for Students" through an online survey for K-12 students across the country. This document summarizes the findings from the more than 160,000 responses to that survey. |
| Claims of Effectiveness: No claims of effectiveness pertain to this paper. The information, which is based on a survey, explores themes and interests only. |
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