Technology Tools for Assessment and Evaluation

The article first talks about NETS T standards and how they should be incorporated into curriculum. The authors of this article say it after demonstrating competency of those skills they are truly ready to integrate technology not the K-12 classroom. After conducting interviews on students, it was learned that students are not making the need connections between general method courses and the skills they learned in IT. It is then found that many students are confusing what should be clear terms and that the confusion of these terms is what is preventing students to effectively link IT and course curriculum. It is then understood that until terms like, assessment and evaluation are understood to its fullest, we can then link these major concepts to technology.

I totally agree with the authors of this article. Technology can be used in a variety or purposes and can be a very useful tool if employed correctly. Technology can be used in numerous ways for assessment and evaluation purposes, but they wont be effective tools if the reasons for using are not understood. One must know what assessment and eval7ation means before they can actually measure these two things. I think having technology classes as a part of our required courses to obtain our teaching certificates is a very good idea. These courses help us link the information were learning in our methods class with our new technology skills.