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Ensuring Educational Technology Meets the Needs of Students Today – and Tomorrow: NASBE Report

Ensuring Educational Technology Meets the Needs of Students Today – and Tomorrow

NASBE Report National Association of State Boards of Education

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ET News: SBAC Tech Readiness Tool Information and Reset Update (10/9/2012)

As of October 8, 2012, some new data fieldswill be added to the Smarter Balanced Technology Readiness Tool.  These additional fields will give you the ability to categorize organizations, show grade specific enrollment counts, and further classify the location and ownership of devices.  Also on this date the submission status for each school will be reset to “no”. 

Below is information provided by Pearson on how to submit this additional data:

Restatement I of the Data Use and Reciprocal Support Agreement (DURSA), May 3, 2011

In 2008, as part of the Nationwide Health Information Network Phase II Trial Implementations, a multi-disciplinary team was assembled to develop a comprehensive agreement that would create a legal framework using existing law for the electronic exchange of health data. This agreement, called the Data Use and Reciprocal Support Agreement or DURSA, was first executed by a number of Federal agencies and non-Federal organizations (the “Participants”) beginning in November 2009.

Attached documents include:

  • The May 3, 2011 update and restatement of the DURSA.
  • Presentation to the NwHIN Cooperative (May 19, 2011), which provides an overview of the May 2011 DURSA.
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Practical Implementatioin

Presentation from 11/8 presentation.

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PISA 2009 Results: Students On Line: Digital Technologies and Performance (Volume VI)

Released yesterday, this sixth volume of PISA 2009 results explores students’ use of information technologies to learn. In 2009, students in 19 countries and economies took a PISA test using computers which tested their ability to navigate and evaluate information on line. Students also filled in a background questionnaire providing information on their use of computers both in school and at home. This report presents the initial findings of the survey.

Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council

“PESC enables cost-effective connectivity between data systems to accelerate performance and service, to simplify data access and research, and to improve data quality along the higher education lifecycle.”  It provides services to members and sponsors to achieve interoperability. 

http://www.pesc.org

School Interoperability Frameworks Association

“The SIF Association´s vision within this context is that schools will be enabled to better utilize technology in a manner that leverages the promise and capabilities of interoperability between disparate applications.”  The SIF website addresses the different audiences: vendors, schools, and government, providing resources to each with the goal to meet the SIF Specifications. 

http://www.sifinfo.org

IMS Global Question and Test Interoperability Specifications

A neutral forum in which members work together to advocate the use of technology to support and transform education and learning.

http://www.imsglobal.org/question

DataDirector

DataDirector, an online data and assessment management solution, provides tracking and reporting tools using data from multiple sources to assist educators with data-driven decision making.  This website provides more information on the commercial data and assessment management system; product details are provided.  DataDirector is provided by Riverside - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 

http://www.riversidepublishing.com/products/DataDirect

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