Open AccessInformation Technology & Goals of Standards-Based Instruction
Author(s) -
Douglas A. Archbald
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
education policy analysis archives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.727
H-Index - 46
ISSN - 1068-2341
DOI - 10.14507/epaa.v9n48.2001
Subject(s) - academic standards , standards based assessment , learning standards , computer science , information technology , knowledge management , engineering ethics , political science , mathematics education , management science , pedagogy , educational assessment , higher education , sociology , psychology , engineering , curriculum , law , operating system
This article examines goals of standards-based reform in education and ways in which developments in information technology have facilitated those goals. Since standards-based reform is a rather general concept, I begin by developing a more specific formulation which I refer to as the “standards-based instruction and assessment” model. Developments in information technology over the last fifteen years have contributed in important ways to the goals of standards-based reform at the policy level, but difficult organizational and technical challenges still have to be overcome to realize more fully the goal of standards-based instruction and assessment in instructional management and practice within schools and classrooms.