 Critical Issues in Evaluating the Effectiveness of Technology - http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/techconf99/confsum.pdf 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. |
 1999 Secretary's Conference on Educational Technology - Evaluating the Effectiveness of Technology - http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/techconf99/ Details of the conference, including white papers. |
 New Directions for Program Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Education - http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2002/04/evaluation.html The Secretary's Conference on Educational Technology discusses recent changes in evaluation practices and evaluations for new visions of technology teaching and learning. |
 Educator's Guide to Evaluating the Use of Technology in Schools and Classrooms - http://www.ed.gov/pubs/EdTechGuide/ 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. |
 CTB/McGraw-Hill - http://www.ctb.com/ 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. |
 Online Evaluation Resource Library (OERL) - http://oerl.sri.com/ Developed for professionals seeking to design, conduct, document, or review project evaluations. OERL is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). |
 Technology and Learning Magazine - http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/062000/archives/interv.html The May 1998 issue discusses some of the problems with creating authentic assessment tools. |
 Education and Information Technologies - http://www.springerlink.com/content/100163/ The official journal of the IFIP Technical Committee on Education. |
 Resources for NSF Project Evaluation - http://www.nsf.gov/ehr/rec/nsfresources.jsp Developed specifically for NSF project evaluation. |
 Evaluating Interactive Multimedia - http://www.csu.edu.au/division/lmc/?oli-rd/occpap17/eval.htm Shauna McKenna's paper for the Open Learning Institute on evaluating the materials used in computer based learning and evaluating the learning itself. |
 Milken Exchange on Education Technology - http://www.mff.org/edtech/ A summary of different studies and reports relating to the evaluation of educational technologies. |
 WWILD Team (World Wide Interactive Learning Design Team) - http://it.coe.uga.edu/wwild/ 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. |
 The Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM): A Model for Change in Individuals - http://www.nas.edu/rise/backg4a.htm A stage model that applies to anyone experiencing change--policy makers, teachers, parents, students |
 Emerging from the Smog: Making Technology Assessment Work for Schools - http://www.fno.org/feb98/cov98feb.html This article from "From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal" discusses the importance of evaluating technology in schools. |
 Girls Tech: Evaluating Electronic Resources for Girls - http://girlstech.douglass.rutgers.edu/ 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. |
 Summary of Current Research and Evaluation Findings on Technology in Education - http://www.wested.org/techpolicy/refind.html Has evaluation on the use of technology in education. |
 Implementing Technology in Education - http://www.wested.org/techpolicy/recapproach.html Real-world planning and useful insights to implementing and evaluating technology uses in education. A summary of research and evaluation studies. |
 Network for the Evaluation of Education and Training Technologies - http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/srnet/evnet.htm Includes several links related to evaluation standards and web design. |
 MacUsingEducators - http://www.billpalmer.net/macusingeducators/ Articles and discussion for educators who use or want to use Mac computers in the classroom. A collaborative publishing effort. |
 Challenges for the Evaluation of New Information and Communication Technologies - http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/jaal/March_Column.html Reprint article which considers various aspects of issues related to technology evaluation, access, and literacy learning. |
 Technology Foundation Standards for Students - http://cnets.iste.org/students/s_stands.html Provides technology standards and sample activities for various grade levels, PreK-12. |
 EvaluTech Review Criteria - http://www.evalutech.sreb.org/criteria/ Criteria for evaluating computer courseware, CD-ROMs, websites, videodiscs, web portals, fiction and nonfiction books, and other media. Also has a guide to writing an annotation for courseware, and professional resources for selection and collection development. |
 Encyclopedia of Educational Technology - http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/ A collection of short articles organized around five main areas relating to educational technology: analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation. Many of the entries cover items relating to the visual aspects of educational technology. The encyclopedia is edited by Bob Hoffman at San Diego State University. |
 Situated Evaluation - http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~chip/sit-eval.shtml Contains links to research and evaluation studies done within the situated evaluation framework. |
 Technology's Role in the Classroom - http://www.4teachers.org/keynotes/roberts/ 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. |
 Learning with Technology Profile Tool - http://www.ncrtec.org/capacity/profile/profwww.htm This profile tool will help you to compare your current instructional practices with a set of indicators for engaged learning and high-performance technology. |
 A Step Towards the Creation of Educational Technology Standards: Identifying Key Skills - http://www.teach-nology.com/tutorials/tech_standards1/ This article examines the process of identifying learning standards for educational and instructional technology programs. |
 Technology Literacy Challenge Grant Program Evaluation - http://www.seirtec.org/publications/ncdpieval.html This site contains excellent rubrics that can be used to evaluate any short- or long-term technology program |
 Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching - http://www.ied.edu.hk/apfslt/ 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. |