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iSkills
http://tinyurl.com/2l9lf5
ETS organized the 2001 International ICT Literacy Panel — an international group of leaders in education, business and government — to analyze issues and approaches to measuring ICT literacy. From this research, ETS partnered with a consortium of institutions of higher education to develop the iSkills assessment.
The iSkills assessment helps you ensure your students are ready for success in academia and the workforce.

National ICT Literacy Standards Set (USA)
http://tinyurl.com/yoy7o2
National ICT Literacy Standards Set (USA)
Amid calls for comparable information and communication technology (ICT) literacy standards nationwide, the National ICT Literacy Policy Council has recommended a set of national ICT literacy standards to serve as the basis for the Educational Testing Service (ETS) iSkills™ assessment.

Understanding Computers and the Internet : Tests/Exams
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~cscie1/
Exam 1. Test your understanding of hardware, software, and the Internet! Available in PDF.
Exam 1: Answer Key. Answers to Exam 1. Available in PDF.
Exam 2. Test your understanding of multimedia, security, website development, and programming! Available in PDF.
Exam 2: Answer Key. Answers to Exam 2. Available in PDF.
Harvard Extension School's Computer Science E-1: Understanding Computers and the Internet ... free online course in English, Chinese or Turkish

Rubrics for the assessment of Blogs
http://www.techlearning.com/blog/2007/05/teacher_20_the_evidence.php
Rubrics for the assessment of Blogs
"We were talking the other day after looking at what makes a good blogger and the question came up about how to assess our blogs. So after much thought, discussion and some arguments we made three assessment rubrics. The students are now looking at other blogs as well as their own and will try to evaluate where they need some work."

Diploma in IT (UK)
http://www.e-skills.com/Diploma-in-IT/1928
Diploma in IT
This Diploma in the IT line of learning will be central to establishing a world-class education system in relation to information and communications technology. It will transform technology-related education for 14-19 year olds, accelerating the UK’s ability to compete in an increasingly demanding global environment.
Reflect the blend of business, technical, interpersonal and project skills needed in modern IT and Telecoms professional roles;
Boost students’ achievements in education, by providing an inspirational, exciting context for learning which embraces academic theory, practical application and evaluation of experience ...

ICT School computer test should be optional
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6232207.stm
England's exams regulator is advising ministers to scrap their plans for a compulsory computer test for teenagers.
The aim is for all 14-year-olds to do the online test in ICT (information and communication technology) from 2008.
It is has been piloted widely.
But ministers have questioned the need for another statutory test, and the QCA watchdog has now decided it is an unnecessary "burden" for schools.
It says the test should be just one tool teachers use to assess progress.

GradeL
http://gradel.sourceforge.net/
GradeL is a free graphical grade book program that currently runs only on Linux.
GradeL, Gradebook for Linux, (rhymes with "cradle") is a gradebook program for teachers. Written in Gambas
GradeL currently supports only the traditional two semester, four marking period schedule. Marking period grades are calculated with either Straight Points (no weights) or Weighted Categories. Semester grades are a weighted combination of two marking periods and a final exam. GradeL produces customizable seating charts and a variety of reports.

Online Grades
http://www.onlinegrades.org/
Online Grades is the leading free-software project that allows K-12+ student grades (and soon attendance information!) to be posted onto a dynamic web site. Online Grades is not a web-based gradebook. Instead, it accepts grade export information from several popular gradebook software programs such as Easy Grade Pro, Gradekeeper, Misty City's Grade Machine, and PGGP and places the grade information online securely.
Student, Teachers, Parents, and Administrators each get their own personal login into Online Grades, which allows them to see all of the grades in all of their classes. If parents have more than one student at a school or district, they only need one parent login to see the grades of all of their students.
Online Grades is free because the software is developed by volunteers and is in-part sponsored by the schools using the Online Grades software.

Recording Pupil Progress in IT (Merthyr Tydfil)
http://tinyurl.com/yxeuxb
Merthyr Tydfil | Recording Pupil Progress in IT | Teacher Assessment in IT | Pupil Self Assessment in IT |

Pupils Self Assessment in IT (Merthyr Tydfil)
http://tinyurl.com/y6fmko
Pupils Self Assessment in IT (Merthyr Tydfil)
ESIS have produced a spreadsheet that can be used by pupils to record their skills in the areas of word processing, desk top publishing and multimedia, internet and email, data handling and graphing, monitoring and control, modelling and spreadsheets and art and design.
The spreadsheet also automatically converts the pupil data into a summary report.

Technology / ICT Self-assessment Tool for Teachers
http://www.doe.mass.edu/edtech/standards/tool.pdf
Massachusetts Department of Education Technology Self-assessment Tool for teachers
This technology instrument has been designed for:
1. Teachers: to determine their own levels of technology proficiency and to identify personal technology professional development needs.
2. Schools/Districts: to assess their professional development needs and to plan professional development activities that will help all teachers become proficient in technology.
3. The State: to gather and report data on technology competencies and technology professional development.

ICT Assessment at the Gipping Valley Partnership (UK)
http://gippingict.phpnet.us/assessment.htm
ICT Assessment at Gipping Valley Partnership
Self Assessment in ICT : Pupils in ICT complete their own skills self assessment grid to track what they ave learnt and what they will learn next. As evidence of what skills pupils have learnt, pupils will provide evidence of their learning by making a hyperlink to their work , thus also creating a portfolio of work.
Grids are available to download
Teacher Assessment in ICT : download the teachers forms.
The Gipping Valley Partnership is a collaboration of schools in Suffolk which have decided to join together to deliver a condensed Key Stage 3 curriculum in Maths, English, Science and ICT.
Pupils study the Key Stage 3 curriculum in years 7 and 8 and then begin the key stage 4 curriculum in yr 9. End of Key stage 3 tests will take place at the end of year 8

Cambridge ICT Starters
http://tinyurl.com/pjyqk
Cambridge ICT Starters
Students of all ages around the world now use ICT to aid and develop their learning and ICT is now in many classrooms from the early years of a child's school career.
With this in mind, Cambridge International Examinations has developed a scheme of assessment for the practical skills in using Information Technology, specifically for those in primary education.
The Cambridge ICT Starters are designed to introduce students to the key ICT applications they need to use to acquire that literacy and to understand the impact of technology on our daily lives.
The syllabus provides a structured scheme of assessment for students developing their ICT capability in very different environments and many different ways.
Based on the UK National Curriculum ?rogramme of Study?in ICT, the syllabus has also been mapped against prescribed ICT standards in a number of countries, so that the skills assessed reflect the competencies demanded internationally.

ICT Assessment and Record Keeping : Matrix
http://tinyurl.com/orutx
ICT Assessment and Record Keeping (Matrix) - This (self assessment) matrix is aimed at school leaders who wish to review their procedures for assessment and record keeping.
ICT | UK |

The MATRIX (UK) (self review) ICT Assessment
http://matrix.becta.org.uk/
The MATRIX (UK) (self review) ICT Assessment
The MATRIX is an online tool, developed by NCSL and Becta, which facilitates self-evaluation and action planning. Use the matrix to review your current position against a set of levelled statements. There are examples available that place the statements into helpful scenarios and context. As you complete the matrix, an action plan, based on your results (which are automatically saved if registered and logged in), is produced. This action plan contains helpful support and guidance, which you may wish to consider.
* Assessment for Learning - This matrix aims to promote the effective use of assessment in schools to enhance and support students' learning.
* ICT Assessment and Record Keeping - This matrix is aimed at school leaders who wish to review their procedures for assessment and record keeping.
* learn2learn online: learning needs assessment - The first element of NCSL's learn2learn online programme.
MATRIX(s) available include
Adult & Community Learning | Assessment | Becta's self-review framework (ICT) | Curriculum | HOS (Hands On Support for the embedding of ICT in teaching and learning) | ICT Infrastructure | Inclusion | LEA | Leadership and Management | Leading Networks | Learning & Skills | SLICT |

Level Tracker for ICT Early Access programme
http://www.electricpaper.ie/products/leveltracker/pilotform.asp
Level Tracker for ICT Early Access programme (UK)
Electric Paper an assessment application (called "LevelTracker for ICT") that tests pupils' ICT capability against each of the 15 units of the (UK) Key Stage 3 Framework. Responses are tracked and mapped to the national curriculum statements of attainment and a profile of individual strengths and weaknesses is produced.
In addition, an adaptive assessment at the start of Year 7 accurately identifies attainment on entry. Levelling the Year 7 cohort on entry in September will help teachers to prepare personalised plans with a view towards the 2008 targets.

ICT Literacy Assessment at ETS (for students)
http://www.ets.org/
ICT Literacy Assessment at ETS
The ICT Literacy Assessment is a comprehensive test of Information and Communication Technology proficiency that uses scenario-based tasks to measure both cognitive and technical skills. The assessment provides support for institutional ICT literacy initiatives, guides curricula innovations, informs articulation and progress standings, and assesses individual student proficiency.
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ETS defines ICT literacy proficiency as the ability to use digital technology, communication tools, and/or networks appropriately to solve information problems in order to function in an information society.
The ICT Literacy Assessment is a comprehensive test of ICT proficiency specifically designed for the higher education environment. The 75-minute assessment is offered at two levels of difficulty, measuring the same ICT Literacy construct covering all seven proficiencies.

ICT Onscreen Tests (UK)
http://www.rm.com/qca/
The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) is developing an onscreen test to provide an independent measure of pupils' attainment in information and communication technology (ICT) at the end of key stage 3 for schools in England. The test assesses ICT capability across levels 3-6 of the national curriculum. Each pupil's test is marked electronically by the software and then, following moderation, confirmed results are returned to schools.
Compulsory in 2008
You can also download a demo and tutorials.
The demo walks you through a test, and the six tutorials introduce you to the test administration software. These are .exe files which you can either run over the network or save then run locally.

ITQ - Tailor made by employers for employers (UK)
http://www.e-skills.com/ITQ/Introduction/556
Information Technology Qualification ITQ - Tailor made by employers for employers
It has been proven that a proficiency in IT is as important as numeracy and literacy for a very large proportion of jobs in the UK.
ITQ is the new flexible IT user qualification and training package that can be tailored to ensure that your staff are trained in just the IT skills they need. It? benchmarked to the e-skills National Occupational Standards for IT Users so you, and your staff, know what you?e getting, and it will certify your staff? performance at work. ITQ is primarily aimed at IT Users and not professional IT staff such as engineers and developers.
Please note that ITQ is the new NVQ for IT Users and forms part of the new Apprenticeship Framework for IT Users.

ILT Self Assessment Online Tool
http://www.nln.ac.uk/lsda/self_assessment/intro.asp
Information and Learning Technology (ILT) self assessment
Developed from the FENTO ILT standards, the ILT online self-assessment tool enables institutions to measure the extent to which they have embedded ILT into teaching and learning and identify priorities for development. This follows on from the survey undertaken in 2002.
The ILT self-assessment tool is intended for managers to complete on behalf of the whole institution. Therefore, only one account is allowed per institution.
ICT | ILT | assessment |

Technology Assessment and Rubrics
http://www.suelebeau.com/techassessment.htm
Technology Assessment and Rubrics

ICT Classroom Assessment Tool Kit
http://ednet.edc.gov.ab.ca/k_12/curriculum/bysubject/ict/
ICT Classroom Assessment Tool Kit : Alberta Canada

Core Technology Competencies and Skills 1999
http://tinyurl.com/bfxaj
Student Core Technology Competencies and Skills 1999
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL)

(ICT) Competencies for Students (Australia)
http://www.trinity.wa.edu.au/plduffyrc/teaching/itcomp.htm
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Competencies for Students
List collated at P.L Duffy Resource Centre, Trinity College, Western Australia.

Year 6 Computer Skills Assessment
http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/learning/k-6assessments/csa6ictskills.php
List of Computer Skills addressed by the Year 6 Computer Skills Assessment (Australia)
This is a list of skills that are developed by Stage 3 students as they use computers in context across all subjects.
The list has been collated from all K-6 syllabus documents by teams of teachers and consultants.

On-screen test for ICT at key stage 3
http://www.qca.org.uk/7280.html
On-screen test for ICT at key stage 3 (UK)
A new onscreen test will become statutory in 2008
QCA has developed an innovative, process-based, on-screen test to assess ICT capability across levels 3? of the national curriculum. The test will become statutory in 2008.
This leaflet provides a step-by-step guide to getting involved with the key stage 3 ICT test. You can download the leaflet (which was sent to all schools so far uninvolved in the project) from this page.

TechLiteracy Assessment
http://www.learning.com/tla/index.htm
TechLiteracy Assessment : Measure, assess and report on student progress
Learning.com? TechLiteracy Assessment is a district-wide solution for measuring the technology proficiency of your elementary and middle school students. Delivered online, TechLiteracy Assessment helps (USA) districts satisfy accountability requirements by demonstrating that student technology standards are being addressed.
Standards alignment, student tracking, class management, and test administration are all hosted by Learning.com, the industry? leading provider of online technology curriculum and integration tools for students. Learning.com has been delivering K-8 online instructional content in schools nationwide since 2001.

Tools and Guidelines for Assessing Technology
http://tinyurl.com/b9scf
Technology in Schools. Suggestions, Tools and Guidelines for Assessing Technology in Elementary and Secondary Education
Directed toward state and local education agencies, this guide describes how to measure technology use by examining planning and policies; finance; equipment and infrastructure; technology applications; maintenance and support; professional development; and technology integration.

NETS Online Technology Assessment
http://tinyurl.com/8jygv
The NETS Online Technology Assessment helps teachers measure student skills in using software applications and helps measure student progress toward meeting the National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS?). (USA)
Each assessment consists of 5 to 10 activities measuring a number of separate skills as well as integrated sets of skills related to a project or problem. The assessments are designed to be completed within an average of 30 minutes or less, but they are not timed. Individual activities can be repeated, and the assessments can be retaken as many times as needed. Feedback on student performance is provided after each question, and a summary is given at the end.
The primary purpose of these assessments is to provide students and teachers with easily accessible online assessments that provide immediate, formative feedback to teachers and students about their ability to use technology to enhance learning.
ISTE: The International Society for Technology in Education
Assessments of this kind involve not only assessing whether students have learned to use technology, but whether they can use technology to learn (e.g. problem solve, make decisions).

e-Assessment Glossary
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/assessment.html
e-Assessment Glossary
The eAssessment Glossary includes terms that are commonly used during the development of items and tests. It looks at the processes involved during the design, presentation and recording of candidate? e-responses to assessment stimuli.
The range of terms identified during this review are words that are commonly used in eAssessment, including terminology that makes use of ICT with either complete or partial use of electronic processes to deliver examinations and assessments. This includes the use of electronic processes for registration of candidates to certification and also the end-to-end assessment processes from the perspective of learners, practitioners, school administrators, learning establishments, awarding bodies and members of the general public. The eAssessment Glossary is comprehensive but it does not contain highly specialised ICT or psychometric terms.

ICT Assessment & Reporting : Western Australia
http://www.eddept.wa.edu.au/cip/learntech/ar/
ICT Assessment & Reporting : Western Australia
Information Strand Checklist | Materials Strand Checklist | Technology Process (Investigating, Devising, Producing, Evaluating) Checklist | Web Design Criteria Based Assessment | Web Design Project Review Sheet | Web Design Skills Proficiency Checklist |

Joint Assessment System (ICT Assessment)
http://www.jointassessment.co.uk/
Pupil Self-assessment - Teacher assessment - Electronic Portfolio Mgt - Reporting
Joint Assessment System will enable your ICT department to excel at assessment for learning in your school. It will give you the information you need to instantly show colleagues, management or inspectors your assessments of your pupils and examples of their work.

ICT QCA End of Unit Evaluation Sheets
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/ict/ict.htm
ICT QCA End of Unit Evaluation Sheets .. All Word documents | ICT Record of Achievement | ICT Record Sheet KS2 | ICT Record Sheet KS1 |

Onscreen KS3 ICT testing (UK) : Demo & Tutorial
http://www.rm.com/qca/mainpage.asp?contentref=QCAP368909
Onscreen KS3 ICT testing (UK) : Demo & Tutorial
The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) is developing an onscreen test to provide an independent measure of pupils' attainment in information and communication technology (ICT) at key stage 3 (years 7-9) for schools in England. The test will assess ICT capability across levels 3-8 of the national curriculum. It will be marked automatically and then verified by human markers.
The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) is developing an onscreen test to provide an independent measure of pupils' attainment in information and communication technology (ICT) at key stage 3 (years 7-9) for schools in England.
The 2006 national pilot will take place from 2 - 26 May 2006. In order to take part in the 2006 pilot, schools must complete an accreditation process to check their technical suitability to run the test. This process is open to schools with pupils who will be completing the KS3 ICT programme of study.

Using Student Diaries for ICT Assessment
http://www.lgfl.net/lgfl/leas/lewisham/communities/ICT/
Using Student Diaries for ICT Assessment
Lewisham (UK) have developed and trialled 'pupil learning diaries' which help pupils write up what they can do. The diaries also help teachers to assess pupils' progress. The diaries help pupils to 'think' because they pose questions. The questions are drawn from the learning objectives for the unit of work.

Islington - Assessing ICT : year 1 to year6
http://tinyurl.com/ds5ae
CEA@Islington Primary ICT Assessment Portfolio : Key Stages 1 and 2 (y1-6)
This set of documents may be copied and adapted for non-profit, educational purposes, providing CEA@islington copyright is acknowledged
Includes examples of children's work (top, middle, bottom) for each QCA unit of work, levelled and with teacher annotations, following the model of ncaction. Schools are finding it useful in supporting the development of a school porfolio.

USA National Educational Technology Standards
http://www.cybersmartcurriculum.org/act_sheets/tech_standards_alignment.pdf
Alignment of The CyberSmart! Curriculum with ISTE? USA National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) Performance Indicators

ICT Record of Achievement
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/ict/ict.htm#other
ICT Record of Achievement at Primary Resources UK | ICT Record Sheet KS1 | Y1-Y6 QCA Links and Additional Skills | ICT Record Sheet KS2 |

USA National Educational Tech Standards (NETS)
http://cnets.iste.org/
The National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) USA
The primary goal of the ISTE NETS Project is to enable stakeholders in USA PreK-12 education to develop national standards for educational uses of technology that facilitate school improvement in the United States.
The NETS Project will work to define standards for students, integrating curriculum technology, technology support, and standards for student assessment and evaluation of technology use.

Personal Computer Competences Matrix
http://tinyurl.com/89hfj
Personal Computer Competences Matrix
The new PCC matrix is divided into three categories, allowing you to focus on one area at a time. It forms part of the SLICT (Strategic Leadership of ICT) course for headteachers.
1. General Computer Skills | 2. Personal Productivity Skills | 3. Communications and Organisational Skills |

Online Sats tests in ICT : England May 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4563611.stm
May 2005 : Thousands of teenagers in England have taken online Sats tests in ICT for the first time.
They are guinea pigs for a national test which will become compulsory for 13 and 14-year-olds in 2008.
The trial is being run in more than 500 schools by the exams and curriculum watchdog, the QCA.
The organisation says it is the first time a national test has been sat online anywhere in the world.
The tests are set in a virtual world, with specially-designed software, not standard programs used in many schools.
In 2006, any school can opt to take part in the trials, which will continue until the test becomes compulsory in England's schools in 2008.

Student profiles for ICT
http://curriculum.becta.org.uk/docserver.php?docid=340
Student profiles for ICT
These pupil profiles are intended to give teachers a feel for the sorts of activities that children of differing levels of ICT Capability might be involved with. They will provide pointers for the types of things that children can demonstrate that they are able to do.
The profiles also provide some indication of the sorts of things that children at the different levels can say about their work, the kinds of discussions they might be having, questions they might be asking and decisions they might be able to make about the way they approach their work.
Where there are no specific attainment levels shown we have tried to indicate the kind of work which children should be undertaking, both at and away from the computer, in order to prepare them for work at the higher levels of ICT capability.
The teacher's notes which accompany each profile are intended to give some indication of the kind of notes teachers might keep over a period of time, to help them make their teacher assessment of a child's ICT Capability.

Common evaluation framework ICT
http://www.becta.org.uk/leaders/display.cfm?section=20&id=4105
The Common Evaluation Framework (CEF) has been developed across government departments and agencies and relates to the evaluation of the whole-school impact of ICT. As well as Ofsted, the DfES, QCA, Becta, NCSL and the national Primary and Secondary Strategies have all been party to this work. The framework aims to serve as the shared basis for school self-evaluation, external inspection and support work by various agencies. It also seeks to complement related schemes that have evolved in LEAs and elsewhere as well as the 'e-confident school' work of the NCSL and the Naacemark scheme run by the Naace and Becta.

ICT Assignment Worksheet | Student Pre-Assessment Form
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/ntti/resources/workshops/managing_students/resources.html
ICT Assignment Worksheet
Defines what students need to accomplish and how much time they have to complete each task. Students can also record the information they have gathered onto the assignment worksheet.
A list of questions that help teachers determine the computer knowledge and experience of each student.

Primary: Learning and teaching : using ICT for Assessment
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/features/embedding_ict/939253/assessment
Primary: Learning and teaching : using ICT for Assessment
Information on how to use ICT for assessment, recording and reporting. | Provides useful background information and links to practical tool and ideas on how to use ICT for assessment | Information | Case Studies |

Student computer use and test performance (Jan2005 USA Report)
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-01/bc-rcu012805.php
Regular computer use for work, but not play, aids student test performance
CHESTNUT HILL, MA) Regular use of computers can have an effect on student performance on standardized tests, according to a Jan 2005 study by researchers at Boston College and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.
Analyzing test performance and computer uses of 986 fourth grade students from 55 classrooms in nine Massachusetts school districts, the study found that the more regularly students use computers to write papers for school, the better they performed on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment Systems (MCAS) English/Language Arts exam. This positive effect occurred despite the fact that students were not allowed to use computers for the test.
Conversely, the study found that students' recreational use of computers to play games, explore the Internet for fun, or chat with friends at home had a negative effect on students' MCAS reading scores. Similarly, students' use of computers to create PowerPoint presentations was also negatively associated with MCAS writing scores.

Online Measure of Student ICT Proficiency : DEMO
http://tinyurl.com/alejm
ETS Launches ICT Literacy Assessment, an Online Measure of Student Information and Communication Technology Proficiency DEMO
This brief Demo will introduce you to the important features of the ICT Literacy Assessment.

Online Measure of Student ICT Proficiency
http://www.ets.org
ETS Launches ICT Literacy Assessment, an Online Measure of Student Information and Communication Technology Proficiency
Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Nov 2004 launched an ETS ICT (Information and Communication Technology) Literacy Assessment, a simulation-based testing program that measures postsecondary students' ability to define, access, manage, integrate, evaluate, create and communicate information in a technological environment.
Unique among literacy assessments, the ETS ICT Literacy Assessment measures multiple aspects of ICT proficiency. Rather than pose multiple-choice questions, it requires test takers to use basic technology as a tool to arrive at solutions. In that way, the test demands that students use technology to perform information management tasks, such as extracting specific information from a database, developing a spreadsheet, or composing an e-mail summarizing research findings.

ICT self assessment activities KS1 KS2 KS3
http://www.northerngrid.org/ngflwebsite/sa.htm
These self-assessment activities list the techniques that pupils need in order to develop their ICT capabilities in Key Stages 1 and 2 and Key Stage 3. While some schools may want to use the activities as 'tick sheets' for teachers to monitor the pupils' techniques, a more effective use would be to use them as self-assessment tools for pupils to monitor their own progress. These activities may be easier with older children, but younger children could either do them as a whole-class activity, focusing on only one area at a time or with ICT partners from older classes.
The activities can also be printed out and completed away from the computer. Ideally, Year 4 and older would carry out the self-assessment activity at the end of each term.

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