Evaluation

» 1999 Secretary's Conference on Educational Technology - Evaluating the Effectiveness of Technology
   Details of the conference, including white papers.

   
   http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/techconf99/

» 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.

   
   http://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.

   
   http://www.ied.edu.hk/apfslt/

» CTB/McGraw-Hill
   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.

   
   http://www.ctb.com/

» 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.

   
   http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/jaal/March_Column.html

» 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 infrastructu [PDF]

   
   http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/techconf99/confsum.pdf

» Education and Information Technologies
   The official journal of the IFIP Technical Committee on Education.

   
   http://www.springerlink.com/content/100163/

» 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 pr

   
   http://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.

   
   http://www.fno.org/feb98/cov98feb.html

» Encyclopedia of Educational Technology
   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. Th

   
   http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/

» EvaluTech Review 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 devel

   
   http://www.evalutech.sreb.org/criteria/

» 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.

   
   http://www.csu.edu.au/division/lmc/?oli-rd/occpap17/eval.htm

» 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

   
   http://girlstech.douglass.rutgers.edu/

» Implementing Technology in Education
   Real-world planning and useful insights to implementing and evaluating technology uses in education. A summary of research and evaluation studies.

   
   http://www.wested.org/techpolicy/recapproach.html

» 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.

   
   http://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.

   
   http://www.mff.org/edtech/

» Network for the Evaluation of Education and Training Technologies
   Includes several links related to evaluation standards and web design.

   
   http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/srnet/evnet.htm

» New Directions for Program Evaluation at the U.S. Department of Education
   The Secretary's Conference on Educational Technology discusses recent changes in evaluation practices and evaluations for new visions of technology teaching and learning.

   
   http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2002/04/evaluation.html

» Online Evaluation Resource Library (OERL)
   Developed for professionals seeking to design, conduct, document, or review project evaluations. OERL is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

   
   http://oerl.sri.com/

» Situated Evaluation
   Contains links to research and evaluation studies done within the situated evaluation framework.

   
   http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~chip/sit-eval.shtml

» Summary of Current Research and Evaluation Findings on Technology in Education
   Has evaluation on the use of technology in education.

   
   http://www.wested.org/techpolicy/refind.html

» Technology Foundation Standards for Students
   Provides technology standards and sample activities for various grade levels, PreK-12.

   
   http://cnets.iste.org/students/s_stands.html

» Technology Literacy Challenge Grant Program Evaluation
   This site contains excellent rubrics that can be used to evaluate any short- or long-term technology program

   
   http://www.seirtec.org/publications/ncdpieval.html

» Technology and Learning Magazine
   The May 1998 issue discusses some of the problems with creating authentic assessment tools.

   
   http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/062000/archives/interv.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.

   
   http://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

   
   http://www.nas.edu/rise/backg4a.htm

» WWILD Team (World Wide Interactive Learning Design Team)
   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 learni

   
   http://it.coe.uga.edu/wwild/