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This presentation by Steven Wise of the Northwest Evaluation Association was given to the Workshop on Assessment of 21st Century Skills, held in January 2011. In it, Wise discusses practical measurement issues in assessing 21st century skills including reliability and validity, item/task complexity,...
This paper, from Igor M. Verner, Shlomo Waks, and Eli Kolberg of The Department of Education in Technology & Science at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, presents a case study that explores possible approaches to designing and implementing an advanced technology course in high school in...
This paper looks at White County High School as an example of how schools may use the SC ATE technology gateway curriculum for dropout prevention. The author illustrates how implementation of ATE curriculum in high schools may help to reduce the dropout rate. The document may be downloaded in PDF...
This 10-paper discusses using Game Theory tournaments as a base to implement Competition-based Learning (CnBL), together with other learning techniques, to motivate students and increase learning performance. The paper includes the following sections: Introduction, Introduction to game theory,...
This 2-page article, from Community College Journal, describes several initiatives from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Advanced Technological Education (ATE) community. The article briefly describes these initiatives and how they adapted during COVID-19. The initiatives are led by community...
This 14-page report, written by Dorothy Bennett, discusses the experiences of five female pre-engineering students at a specialized science high school. Observations and interviews revealed that "there are a number of cultural and psychological pressures that they contend with on a regular basis in...
This paper, from Lesta A. Burgess, Assistant Professor in the Industrial Technology Department at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, covers the online courseware tool WebCT, and its use in technology education classrooms. The paper gives some background to both distance learning as well...
This webinar, from the Necessary Skills Now Network, discusses STEM technology employability skills. The webinar shares the "findings of a multi-year research project promoting the development of STEM tech employability skills-a review of practices and needs in the ATE community, led by SRI...
This 5-page paper, provided by the National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science, discusses a computer game that uses techniques such as gender-neutral characters and storytelling to help get female and male students interested in higher-level mathematical and strategic...
This 104-page paper, published by the National Academies Press, presents the summary of a symposium on careers of women in science. The symposium was organized into three areas: one focusing on the next generation; a second that looks in depth at the issues in computer science; and a third on...
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