Understanding Utility, Assessment, and Technology in Education

Posted on Feb 19, 2025 in Business Administration and Innovation Management

Concept of Utility

  • Scientific Approach: Information must have validity, reliability, and objectivity.
  • Practical Criterion: Must have membership (usable to the student).
  • Reasonable Criteria: Must be efficient, to serve the purpose for which it was projected (if it does not serve the student, it is not significant).

Evaluation Criteria

Project Evaluation

  • Compliance with scheduled times.
  • Achievement of objectives.
  • Project’s impact on students (level of significance, understanding, etc.).
  • Individual and group production.

General Evaluation

  • Management of technical vocabulary, correct writing, and proper speaking.
  • Critical and reflective argument.
  • Management of information to make decisions.
  • Respect for the rules established in the organization of work.

Assessment Instruments

Written tests, comments (registration checklist), interrogatories (oral).

To Evaluate

1. Content

What to evaluate:

  • Concepts
  • Principles
  • Procedures

2. Mental Operations

  • Remember
  • Predict
  • Understand
  • Apply
  • Assess and Evaluate

3. Sample Questions

  • Memory
  • Understanding
  • Prediction
  • Application
  • Evaluation

Resources

Balsa wood chips, pine, glue, ruler, sanding materials, etc.

Rating

Evaluation will consider the interest shown by the group, participation in class, and ability to accept suggestions and express concerns.

  • Ability to pose, analyze, and solve proposed problems.
  • Individual and group practical work.
  • Compliance, submission, sharing, and merits of the work requested.

Procedural Content

  • Description, selection, and use of appropriate materials for specific purposes.
  • Analysis of electrical circuits.
  • Technological projects involving the processing of materials.
  • Description, selection, use, and care of tools and machinery used for processing materials.
  • Graphing tools and materials.
  • Evolutionary analysis of these processes, identifying the delegation of human actions to machines.
  • Detection of potential safety and health risks at work in the school and its relationship to what happens in the world of production.
  • Proposed solutions.

Conceptual Content

  • The technology of materials: classification of materials according to various criteria.
  • The tools and equipment used in processing and transportation of materials and energy (devices and circuits).
  • The tools, machines, and processes that transform materials.
  • Different types of materials processing.
  • Traditional work processes that use machines.
  • Safety and occupational health.

Attitudinal Content

  • Care and rational use of working materials.
  • Respect for health and safety standards at work.

Goals

  • Recognize technology as a discipline that seeks a single goal: well-being.
  • Understand the concept of systems for the analysis of technology products to create an integrated or systemic vision.
  • Communicate results and conclusions using various types of resources (poster, electronic filing, etc.) and appropriate technical language.
  • Know how to use different tools.
  • Identify the components of a computer to understand its operation.