--- Forwarded Message from "Takeshi Sengiku" <[log in to unmask]> --- Takeshi SENGIKU Director of Language Resource Center Gettysburg College +++++ message++++ Subject line: national technology standards and quantitative assessment Message: Apologies for cross-posting Dear colleagues, I was wondering if you can give me some guidance/advice/suggestions. I was wondering if you have seen the article or conducted the research on the standard-based quantitative technology assessment on online (or offline) professional development. I am involved in the project on online professional development for in-service language teachers and I would like to assess the participants' technology skills before and after a course and to correlate them quantitatively. I have been searching for the articles on any quantitative technology assessment based on national standards, but I couldn't find much. I also checked NCATE or ISTE, which indicate the national technology standards as guideline but didn't have concrete assessment items (I may be missing out some websites, though). Also there seems to be a debate whether we should follow the national standard or the standards should be created specifically for CALL... I wanted to ask to those of you who have involved in teacher education or professional development how you have been assessing the participants' technology skills. Do you create the customized assessment items just for your own program? Or do you use some sort of assessment created by NCATE or ISTE with their national standards? Any help would be appreciated. Sincerely Takeshi Takeshi SENGIKU Director of Language Resource Center Gettysburg College [log in to unmask] ++++++++++++++++ *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives at http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=LLTI Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************