According to Education Week and E-School News the NAEP will add technology literacy to its national assessment program beginning in 2012. Meant to assess a broad range of essential skills the current model will not be able to assess critical-thinking skills. Although ISTE has developed NETS only a handful of states have adopted testing in this area. Wonderful news for us library tech folks. This type of assessment further validates the need for educated media specialists in our schools. Although there is much to learn about this assessment (there are still a few years for the details to be finalized) I do have concerns with the fact that the states may become involved and we end up with the same broken and varied assessment programs currently in place for reading, writing, math, and science.
Will we be able to create an assessment that provides valid and meaningful data about student achievement. Thoughts?
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