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COPYRIGHT 2002 International Technology Education Association
The results of the survey indicate these respondents are highly supportive of the K-12 content standards for the study of technology.
ITEA's pivotal document, Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology, was released in April of 2000. Since that time a number of efforts have been initiated to facilitate dissemination and implementation of the standards nationwide. The standards are reviewed and discussed in school department meetings, in state department training sessions, at the ITEA annual conference, and at Technology for All Americans Summer Implementation Workshops. Curriculum guidelines have been developed and materials distributed--all aimed at supporting use of the new content standards. But how are teachers, state supervisors, and others interested in technology feeling about the new standards? Are the standards being implemented? Are the standards viewed as important, and why? Are they seen as having the potential to significantly impact the field, the education of youth in grades K-12? These questions and others were posed to a randomly selected sampling of the teacher, department head, and state supervisor members of ITEA via an e-mail survey conducted in the late spring of 2002. The results of this survey, including responses to open-ended comments, are reported herein.
The Survey
The e-mail survey was sent to 410 randomly selected members of ITEA who were teachers, department chairs, or state supervisors. Sixty individuals completed and returned the survey. Of the respondents, 75% were teachers, 13% were department chairs (most of whom also taught), and 12% were state supervisors. Thus, the responses heavily reflect the classroom teacher perspective.
The Results
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