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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
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
Criteria for Evaluating School-Based Distance Education Programs
General discussion of issues related to evaluating distance learning.
http://www.ncrel.org/tandl/disted.htm
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
Situated Evaluation
Contains links to research and evaluation studies done within the situated evaluation framework.
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/~chip/sit-eval.shtml
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/
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/
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
Surveylearning.com
Includes survey instruments using a constructivist perspective. Instruments include the COLLES and CLES.
http://surveylearning.com
1999 Secretary's Conference on Educational Technology - Evaluating the Effectiveness of Technology
Details of the conference, including white papers.
http://www.ed.gov/Technology/TechConf/1999/
Education and Information Technologies
The official journal of the IFIP Technical Committee on Education.
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1360-2357
User-Friendly Handbook for Project Evaluation:
National Science Foundation guide to program evaluation; includes video.
http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/EHR/RED/EVAL/handbook/handbook.htm
International Journal of Educational Technology (IJET)
An online journal published twice a year and co-sponsored by the University of Illinois and the University of Western Australia. The journal contains research and evaluation articles in the area of computer-based educational technologies and is aimed at an international audience.
http://www.outreach.uiuc.edu/ijet/
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/
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
Milken Exchange on Education Technology
A summary of different studies and reports relating to the evaluation of educational technologies.
http://www.mff.org/edtech/
Two Miles Down a Ten Mile Road: Instructional Technology and the Impact of Lottery Funding in Georgia
An in-depth study of how technology has affected instruction and learning in schools in Georgia. A 167K in size pdf-format document.
http://www.arc.gsu.edu/csp/DownLoad/twomiles.pdf
Evaluation of Online Learning
Online resources on the evaluation of online learning and the results of such evaluations. Part of a larger site on building a web-based education system.
http://webclass.cqu.edu.au/Resources/Evaluation/
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
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
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
Technology Counts '98
A report that includes the following: research on technology's impact on test scores and school climate; 10 case studies related to technology and the education reform movement; policies that states should follow; and data on access, capacity, and use. In collaboration with the Milken Exchange on Education Technology.
http://www.edweek.org/sreports/tc98/
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, The State University of New Jersey in partnership with the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.
http://girlstech.douglass.rutgers.edu/
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
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
When Will Investments In Educational Technology Pay Off?
As technology grows more incredible, available, inexpensive, and connected, there is no consistent picture emerging that these remarkable tools do in fact improve learning. Jon Madian has been a consultant and writer on educational technology for nearly two decades. He founded a leading journal on technology and curriculum and has authored hundreds of software programs and articles.
http://www.sao.org/newsletter/education/madian11-3-99.htm
Assessment - Evaluation
Discussion of assessment and tools for evaluation of on-line learning.
http://www.ode.state.oh.us/ctae/principal/assess/default.asp
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/
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
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 process, learning as they go.
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/EdTechGuide/
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 infrastructure to evaluating the effectiveness of its use in schools and classrooms.
http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/techconf99/confsum.pdf
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 development.
http://www.evalutech.sreb.org/criteria/
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