"Evaluating the Effectiveness of Technology"

When incorporating technology into the curriculum it is necessary to have steps in place to determine if the processes is generating success. A good way to assess technology's affect on the achievement of students is to create statistics to appraise the students' performance, skills attained, and academic ability levels obtained.

Assessment Tools for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Technology Integration

Evaluating the efficiency of technology in the curriculum can aid in assessing whether the technology suits the students, meets learning objectives, and improves the learning process. Accompanying the integration of technology into the curriculum is the integration of technology into the evaluation of student performance. Authentic assessment, which may be formal or informal, presents students with tasks that emulate the objectives and challenges typical of their instructional behaviors. Project-based assessment, based on a style of authentic assessment, labeled project-based learning, concentrates on constructing learning opportunities for students by appealing them in real world projects. Another alternative form of assessment is portfolio assessments, which allows student assignments to be evaluated over a period of time.

Evaluating Technology-based Student Projects

With the integration of technology into curriculums it becomes important that students acquire skills in technology indispensable to education. Rubrics, checklists, rating scales, and teacher observation are all applicable methods of assessing technology-based student projects. The teacher's standards and benchmarks will help determine the subject matter to include student projects and how to evaluate the content.

Technology can be used in all aspects of teaching and learning from introducing knowledge and skills, to discovery of knowledge and skills, to evaluating knowledge and skills.