Texas Technology Literacy from InfoSource Learning on Vimeo.
SimpleAssessment.com shares an engaging video (featured above) but the question is…do their examples of questions match up to the results obtained with a possibly older assessment? Nevertheless, it’s hard to argue with this point:
…we could have created an assessment that all students would easily pass. But that would only give schools a false sense of reality.
Sometimes bad results are good; they prompt change.
The change our students need to succeed in the 21st century.
Great use of media to get your point across. Two points:
1) Please include links to the original blog posts I wrote. The video doesn’t allow for enough context to interpret the graph.
2) SimpleAssessment.com redesigned their assessment to reflect the new ISTE NETS-S, didn’t it? The assessment that most schools took…that was the OLD assessment or the NEW one just completed? That point needs to be made clear. And, where did the questions you feature in the video come from? The older or the newer assessment?
Compare the failure rate of the older assessment with the questions you feature, and there is false advertising.
Please respond and clarify this.
Links to blog posts featured in the video:
Digital Divide – http://www.mguhlin.org/2009/06/digital-divide-in-texas-8th-grade.html
Transparency in Texas Tech Literacy Assessments –
http://www.mguhlin.org/2008/12/transparency-in-texas-tech-literacy-for.html
Thanks,
Miguel Guhlin
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Miguel – Thanks for giving us an opportunity to clarify. The results are based on SimpleAssessment for NETS-S 2007 – the assessment that more than 20,000 Texas students took at the end of the 2008/2009 school year. For detailed information, please be sure to the visit the Texas Results Page, found here: http://www.simplek12.com/texasresults. This page gives a detailed breakdown of the 6 standards found in NETS-S 2007 and shows pass/fail rate by standard to help schools gain a better understanding of their students’ technology literacy levels. For consistency, the questions shown in the above video are from the same SimpleAssessment (NETS-S 2007). To clarify the two versions of the test you are referring to, in July of 2008 when we first launched SimpleAssessment it was a NETS-S 1998 version. Quickly thereafter, by the fall of 2008, we added to our free offer. We also included (not redesigned the 98 version) the NETS-S 2007 version giving schools the option of which test they would like to use.In the 2008/2009 school year, the overwhelming choice of Texas schools and districts was the NETS-S 2007 version of SimpleAssessment. After speaking with a majority of our customers, they felt a more accurate representation of their students technology skills would be found in the second round of testing that was delivered from 4/1 – 6/30 which would take into account any skill improvement their students made during the school year.Thanks for the feedback on the video and webpage. Now, let’s spark comments on the real conversation… Why are students failing these tech assessments and how do we (the community, the state of Texas, and companies like ours) work together to fix it? Regards, Lisa GreathouseMarketing ManagerInfoSource Learningwww.simplek12.com @SimpleK12