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Are Your Students BecomingTechnologically Literate?Measuring Progress: A Guideto Assessing Students forTechnological Literacy is aresource for teachers to use asthey plan and implementstandards-based studentassessment of technologicalliteracy. It provides an approachthat teachers mayfollow as well as descriptions of several assessmenttools and methods. The appendices include forms thatcan be photocopied for teachers to use as they worktoward standards-based reform of student assessmentin their own laboratory-classrooms. Teachers will findMeasuring Progress helpful for understanding how thetechnology content standards (STL, ITEA, 2000, 2002)relate to the student assessment standards (AETL,ITEA, 2003). [ISBN: 1-887101-04-7]VISIT THE ITEA ONLINE CATALOG ATWWW.ITEAWWW.ORG OR CALL703-860-2100 FOR ORDERING INFORMATION. You don’t want to miss this one!Completely NEW conference schedule, and all that KansasCity has to offer! Pre-register today at www.iteawww.org!
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