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Questions assess a student's technology literacy

TechLiteracy Assessment tests offer two types of questions for students to demonstrate their technology literacy skills and knowledge.

Measuring durable software skills instead of brand specific skills
The simulated software in the performance-based questions has realistic menus and functionality and is deliberately generic, not representing any specific software brand or version. This generic representation enables the assessment to measure durable technology literacy skills that students need as they encounter different software at school, home, libraries, online, and in the future.

Multiple choice and rote, memory-based sequence questions would not assess the students’ ability to perform a software task, and the correct answer would typically only be true of one brand and specific version of the software.

Performance-based questions assess skills with technology applications and tasks

Students authentically demonstrate that they can navigate within spreadsheet, word processor, database, browser, and presentation applications, and perform complex tasks.

Simulated software has realistic menus and functionality Students choose the best source for valid information Students create a bar chart

 

Multiple choice questions assess knowledge of technology concepts

TechLiteracy Assessment uses two types of multiple choice questions: graphical and text-based.

Graphical multiple choice question Text-based multiple choice question Students make a design decision

 


Interactive performance-based questions show authentic understanding of task completion

  • Students actually perform the task in simulated software.
  • A hot-spot based question that presents students with a single step to click on in a screenshot does not assess the ability to perform a complex task.
  • Performance-based questions in TechLiteracy Assesment have as many as 12 correct answers, any of which would be scored correct.