Technology Assessment for Schools, Leaders, Educators, Students

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Permalink Reply by Kathy Epps on April 19, 2008 at 10:21pm

You might want to look at this page, the National Curriculum in Action: information and communication technology, The British have been working hard for years at defining, exemplifying (and funding) standards and assessment across the curriculum. There are five levels of attainment:
1. finding things out
2. developing ideas and making things happen
3. exchanging and sharing information
4. reviewing, modifying and evaluating work as it progresses
5. breadth of study

This page describes the progression through the levels, with characteristics and examples.

I work in an International School which is not bound by any specific set of standards, and have always found it useful in my planning to use both the British attainment levels and the ISTE NETS (now the new Nets) - I find them to be different ways of describing the same goals.

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Nielsen on April 20, 2008 at 8:27am

Wow this is great. What a terrific resource and there are amazing fully developed units within. I also noticed the Teachers TV. Fantastic. It's amazing how much is out there. Thank you for sharing this with me. I have added it to my Tech Assessments page.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Cruthers on April 20, 2008 at 1:22pm

Hi Lisa,

The big shift right now that I see is synchronous learning.

I have been using www.Wiziq.com I highly recommend you check it out along with www.authorSTREAM.com

You can check out my blog here.

Mark Cruthers

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Permalink Reply by Abby Thaker on July 14, 2008 at 2:16pm

I'm planning a series of yearlong professional development in technology for next year, and am working on a survey to determine participants' skill levels with technology and the technology topics they are most interested in. Rather than creating just a one-shot survey, I'd like to create an assessment that can be used to track the effectiveness of the PD program itself. Do you have any advice on how to go about this?

Here's what I'm thinking so far - use the initial survey to establish the baseline, establish district-wide and school-specific goals based on that information, and then somehow (surveys? rubrics?) track our progress toward those specific goals.

I'd love your input on how to do this effectively - thanks!

Also... have you come across any assessments that are aligned to the revised NET-S standards?

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Permalink Reply by Dean Mantz on February 16, 2009 at 9:38am

Abby,
I would suggest that you review the new Digital Age survey by Levels of Teaching Innovation (LoTi). LoTi was developed in 1994 by Dr. Chris Moersch. It has been adopted and implemented in numerous school districts and states across the country. The new survey is mapped directly to the ISTE NETS-T standards released at the 2008 NECC. ISTE has their own survey tool as well.

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