"Assess How Much Technology Use Helps Education? Helps It How? A Taxonomy of Goals for Using (and Assessing) IT"

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Title:"Assess How Much Technology Use Helps Education? Helps It How? A Taxonomy of Goals for Using (and Assessing) IT" (ID: CSD1663)
Author(s):Stephen C. Ehrmann
Topics:Assessment and Evaluation, Instructional Technologies, Taxonomies
Source:The TLT Group
Origin:Contributed by Organizations or Campuses (2001)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:One way to focus either an educational use of technology or a study of that application is to clarify the educational goals for using the technology. Of all the educational improvements that might stem from this use of technology, which are the most important to assess? To help focus on specific outcomes, it helps to have a vocabulary -- a taxonomy of different types of outcomes that are especially pertinent to technology use. This article describes two taxonomies that together provide useful starting points for clarifying educational outcomes of technology use.
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