Assessment and Accreditation
The Department of
Educational Technology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa is proud of its
reputation for excellence. Maintaining high standards is an ongoing process in
which the entire community contributes to discussion of what we do well and
what we hope to do better. We adhere to a sound set of standards and ethics in
our practice and our programs.
Accreditation
As part of the
continuous improvement effort, ETEC graduate programs are accredited by the Association for
Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), the
professional organization for educational technology.etec was officially reacredited in 2009. AECT is one of the
specialized professional associations (SPA) of the National Council for
Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), the accrediting
body of the UH College of Education.
Standards
All ETEC programs and
courses have been designed to meet national standards for educational
technology. ETEC graduate courses use standards for initial preparation
programs from AECT as
a basis for objectives and assessment.
Those courses
specifically for K-12 teachers, particularly undergraduate classes that are
required by COE teacher preparation programs, employ standards from the International Society
for Technology in Education(ISTE), including the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T)
and National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS-S).
These courses also employ the framework from the Partnership
for 21st Century Skills.
Assessment
Assessment of student
learning is critical to ensuring program success. Each of our required courses
include standards based assessments, with rubrics employed for evaluation of
student outcomes. Each Master's student develops a standards-based portfolio of
work during their program, with the final portfolio self-assessed by the
student and assessed by the faculty. The results of these assessments are
regularly reviewed by the department as part of our self-evaluation and
improvement process. Samples of student portfolios are found in the Resources section.
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