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Sunday, August 25, 2002
http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/vault/A4116.cfm Producing Assessment-Savvy Educators William Zaggle, President, Excelsior Software Inc. The biggest thing going for the education technology industry today is the push toward standards-based assessment. We have watched this gradual change since the late 1980s. Today, everybody is scrambling for ways to create, teach, assess and track the progress of students toward learning standards. When it finally looked like schools were going to get serious about standards-based assessment, Excelsior Software quickly turned to vocational schools, which have been teaching and tracking standards for many years as a way of learning what works and what does not. Putting this technology into mainstream education, however, is a different game altogether. Without traditional grades, teachers have to redefine their jobs, parents fail to make the connection at all and students traditionally meet only minimum standards. The paradoxical question when providing technology tools to teachers has always been: "How do you make it simple enough to learn to use with minimal or no training, and still keep it functional enough to be worth the time to implement?"...
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