Computer Evaluation Cometh: Accountability Promises Questions, Not Answers, about Kids and Computers.

Watt, Dan

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ERIC Number: EJ304484

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Publication Date: 1984

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Computer Evaluation Cometh: Accountability Promises Questions, Not Answers, about Kids and Computers.

Watt, Dan

Popular Computing, v3 n9 p91-92,94 Jul 1984

Discusses the need for researchers to determine what should be tested and how when evaluating educational computing programs, describes efforts of Educational Testing Service's National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to measure the impact of computers on achievement, and concludes that it will not be easy to evaluate computers' effects. (MBR)

Descriptors: Accountability, Computer Literacy, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Microcomputers, National Programs, Problem Solving, Program Evaluation, Testing Problems

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: National Assessment of Educational Progress

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