Engineering and Technology -Engineering Education.This book will be of special interest to individuals and groups promoting technological literacy in the United States, education and government policy makers in federal and state agencies, as well as the education research community. The book offers findings and 12 related recommendations that address five critical areas: instrument development research on learning computer-based assessment methods, framework development, and public perceptions of technology.
The book examines opportunities and obstacles to developing scientifically valid and broadly applicable assessment instruments for technological literacy in the three target populations. Tech Tally: Approaches to Assessing Technological Literacy determines the most viable approaches to assessing technological literacy for students, teachers, and out-of-school adults. This understanding depends in large part on an individual level of technological literacy. Technology is pervasive an informed citizenship needs to know what technology is, how it works, how it is created, how it shapes our society, and how society influences technological development. Although people tend to focus on the most recent technological inventions, technology includes a myriad of devices and systems that profoundly affect everyone in modern society.
In a broad sense, technology is any modification of the natural world made to fulfill human needs or desires. Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences.Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.