Technology+Assessments

This page is reserved for information related to technology assessments for students and teachers as they relate to our district Technology Plan.

**//-- The eSchool News Editors//** Our country's global economic success in the future depends on K-20 graduates honing their "21st Century Skills." Today's tech-savvy generation has no shortage of user-friendly devices...and they know how to use them. But are they putting these tech skills to good use? You've heard of the 3Rs, but what about the 5Cs such as critical thinking, creative problem solving, communications, collaboration and cross-cultural relationship building? Beginning in 2012, "tech literacy" will be added to our Nation's Report Card. This means student proficiency in the application of technology will be measured for the first time. It isn't just layering technology over traditional core competencies, though. It's about totally integrating the two for success in an increasingly competitive world. In preparation for the coming technology assessment, educational leaders are seeing heightened pressure to provide hard data on how well their students are progressing, how effective their teachers are, and how technology instruction is helping students solve real-world problems...

//**What we know:**// - For the first time ever, technological literacy will become part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation's Report Card, the test's governing board has announced. - Beginning in 2012, the test will measure students' proficiency with technology in addition to reading, math, science, history, writing, and other subjects. The new test will mark the first time students' technology literacy has been assessed on a national level. - The National Assessment Governing Board has awarded a $1.86 million contract to WestEd—a nonprofit educational research, development, and service agency based in San Francisco—to develop the 2012 NAEP Technological Literacy Framework. - The Governing Board is slated to review and approve the technological literacy framework in late 2009. - The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) has developed a set of National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for students, and the No Child Left Behind Act requires that students demonstrate technological literacy by the end of the eighth grade. - The Partnership for 21st Century Skills has the ISTE/NETS Seal of Alignment. - [|21st Century Skills] - [|21st Century Skills Incentive Fund Act], 5/18/09 - On October 10, 2008 the “Broadband Data Improvement Act” / “Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act” was signed into law. For schools and districts the law means that elementary and secondary schools having computers with Internet access will not receive federal funding through the E-Rate Program for Internet service, Internet access or internal connections without certifying that their Internet safety policy includes Internet safety education.

//**Resources**// ISTE NETS for Students Teachers Administrators ISTE student standards in Excel format The following document is the 2006 CT Information and Technology Literacy Framework. The curricular areas in red are the standards that the Integrated Learning Team assigned.

Commercial assessment for NCLB requirement that all students be tech literate by end of grade 8. Based on ISTE NETS for students (International Society for Technology in Education, National Educational Technology Standards) Learning.com data sheet Learning.com tech literacy assessment 20 item sample: [|http://www.] [|learning] [|.] [|com] [|/tla/] [|20itemsample] Sample Reports: [|http://www.] [|learning] [|.] [|com] [|/tla/] [|reports.htm]