Open Directory - Reference: Education: Instructional Technology: Evaluation
See also: - Details of the conference, including white papers. - This article examines the process of identifying learning standards for educational and instructional technology programs. - 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. - Publisher of standardized achievement tests and custom assessments including TerraNova, Fox in a Box, SUPERA, LAS, TABE, TestMate, NEDT, CDRT, and CDMT. The mission is to help the teacher help the child. - Reprint article which considers various aspects of issues related to technology evaluation, access, and literacy learning. - The official journal of the IFIP Technical Committee on Education. - This article from "From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal" discusses the importance of evaluating technology in schools. - 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. - Real-world planning and useful insights to implementing and evaluating technology uses in education. A summary of research and evaluation studies. - A summary of different studies and reports relating to the evaluation of educational technologies. - Developed for professionals seeking to design, conduct, document, or review project evaluations. OERL is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). - Contains links to research and evaluation studies done within the situated evaluation framework. - Has evaluation on the use of technology in education. - Provides technology standards and sample activities for various grade levels, PreK-12. - 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. - A stage model that applies to anyone experiencing change--policy makers, teachers, parents, students - The WWILD Team looks for special kinds of interactive software that they call interactive modules. An interactive module, similar to any reusable learning object, is any self-contained, short, interactive experience that is relevant to school-based learning -- they are not lessons, but resources for lessons and learning. - 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. [PDF] (January 01, 1999)
