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- 1999 Secretary's Conference on Educational Technology - Evaluating the Effectiveness of Technology - Details of the conference, including white papers.
www.ed.gov/Technology/TechConf/1999
- A Step Towards the Creation of Educational Technology Standards: Identifying Key Skills - This article examines the process of identifying learning standards for educational and instructional technology programs.
www.teach-nology.com/tutorials/tech_standards1
- Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching - An online periodical dedicated to the effectiveness and interest of learning and teaching science subjects with the use of IT (especially various multimedia and Internet resources) in schools.
www.ied.edu.hk/apfslt
- Assessment - Evaluation - Discussion of assessment and tools for evaluation of on-line learning.
www.ode.state.oh.us/ctae/principal/assess/default.asp
- Challenges for the Evaluation of New Information and Communication Technologies - Reprint article which considers various aspects of issues related to technology evaluation, access, and literacy learning.
www.readingonline.org/electronic/jaal/March_Column.html
- Criteria for Evaluating School-Based Distance Education Programs - General discussion of issues related to evaluating distance learning.
www.ncrel.org/tandl/disted.htm
- Critical Issues in Evaluating the Effectiveness of Technology - Summary of the Secretary's Conference on Educational Technology: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Technology on July 12-13, 1999, in Washington, D.C.. It notes a shift in schools' focus on technology from building and implementing a technology infrastructure to evaluating the effectiveness of its use in schools and classrooms.
www.ed.gov/Technology/TechConf/1999/confsum.html
- CTB/McGraw-Hill - Publisher of standardized achievement tests and custom assessments including TerraNova, Fox in a Box, SUPERA, LAS, TABE, TestMate, NEDT, CDRT, CDMT, etc. The mission is to help the teacher help the child.
www.ctb.com
- Education and Information Technologies - The official journal of the IFIP Technical Committee on Education.
www.kluweronline.com/issn/1360-2357
- Educator's Guide to Evaluating the Use of Technology in Schools and Classrooms - This guide was developed for the U.S. Department of Education. The guide is a tool for individuals with little formal training in research or evaluation. The handbook provides educators with a resource that enables greater involvement in the evaluation process, learning as they go.
www.ed.gov/pubs/EdTechGuide
- Emerging from the Smog: Making Technology Assessment Work for Schools - This article from "From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal" discusses the importance of evaluating technology in schools.
www.fno.org/feb98/cov98feb.html
- Evaluating Interactive Multimedia - Shauna McKenna's paper for the Open Learning Institute on evaluating the materials used in computer based learning and evaluating the learning itself.
www.csu.edu.au/division/lmc/?oli-rd/occpap17/eval.htm
- Evaluation of Online Learning - Online resources on the evaluation of online learning and the results of such evaluations. Part of a larger site on building a web-based education system."
webclass.cqu.edu.au/Resources/Evaluation
- Girls Tech: Evaluating Electronic Resources for Girls - Explains and demonstrates a framework to evaluate electronic resources that will encourage and increase young women's interest and participation in the sciences and technology. A program of Douglass College, the undergraduate women?s college of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in partnership with the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.
girlstech.douglass.rutgers.edu
- Instructional Technology in Georgia Schools - An in-depth study of how technology has affected instruction and learning in schools in Georgia.
itc.gsu.edu/research/two_miles.html
- International Journal of Educational Technology (IJET) - An online journal published twice a year and co-sponsored by the University of Illinois and the University of Western Australia. The journal contains research and evaluation articles in the area of computer-based educational technologies and is aimed at an international audience.
www.outreach.uiuc.edu/ijet
- Learning with Technology Profile Tool - This profile tool will help you to compare your current instructional practices with a set of indicators for engaged learning and high-performance technology.
www.ncrtec.org/capacity/profile/profwww.htm
- Milken Exchange on Education Technology - A summary of different studies and reports relating to the evaluation of educational technologies.
www.mff.org/edtech
- Network for the Evaluation of Education and Training Technologies - Includes several links related to evaluation standards and web design.
socserv2.mcmaster.ca/srnet/evnet.htm
- New Directions in the Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Educational Technology - The Secretary's Conference on Educational Technology discusses recent changes in evaluation practices and evaluations for new visions of technology teaching and learning.
www.ed.gov/Technology/TechConf/1999/whitepapers/paper8.html
- Situated Evaluation - Contains links to research and evaluation studies done within the situated evaluation framework.
www.lis.uiuc.edu/~chip/sit-eval.shtml
- Technology and Learning Magazine - The May 1998 issue discusses some of the problems with creating authentic assessment tools.
www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/062000/archives/interv.html
- Technology Counts '98 - A report that includes the following: research on technology's impact on test scores and school climate; 10 case studies related to technology and the education reform movement; policies that states should follow; and data on access, capacity, and use. In collaboration with the Milken Exchange on Education Technology.
www.edweek.org/sreports/tc98/tchome.htm
- Technology Foundation Standards for Students - Provides technology standards and sample activities for various grade levels, PreK-12.
cnets.iste.org/sfors.htm
- Technology Literacy Challenge Grant Program Evaluation - This site contains excellent rubrics that can be used to evaluate any short- or long-term technology program
www.seirtec.org/publications/ncdpieval.html
- Technology's Role in the Classroom - Nobody believes it's the quick fix for America's K-12 ills. An interview with Linda Roberts, Director of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology. She discusses how we can measure whether technology can enhance student learning.
www.4teachers.org/keynotes/roberts
- The Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM): A Model for Change in Individuals - A stage model that applies to anyone experiencing change--policy makers, teachers, parents, students
www.nas.edu/rise/backg4a.htm
- User-Friendly Handbook for Project Evaluation: - National Science Foundation guide to program evaluation; includes video.
www.ehr.nsf.gov/EHR/RED/EVAL/handbook/handbook.htm
- When Will Investments In Educational Technology Pay Off? - As technology grows more incredible, available, inexpensive, and connected, there is no consistent picture emerging that these remarkable tools do in fact improve learning. Jon Madian has been a consultant and writer on educational technology for nearly two decades. He founded a leading journal on technology and curriculum and has authored hundreds of software programs and articles.
www.sao.org/newsletter/education/madian11-3-99.htm
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