Office of Curriculum, Technology, & Assessment

2009 Statewide Assessment

Through the No Child Left Behind Act (ESEA Title II, Part D, Subpart 1), the Enhancing Education Through Technology (Ed Tech) Program states are required to ensure and report  the number of 8^th students which are technologically literate by the end of eighth grade.

As a result of both the federal legislation, South Dakota being a leader in technology and the national trend to defined proficiency, South Dakota has proposed and been approved by the federal government to first implement our state’s new k-12 educational technology standards in 07-08 then through a pilot project provide a new statewide test to assess the technological skills of 8^th graders with 10-20 school districts.

This will allow other districts a year to train staff in the new standards.  Then in 08-09 the new standards will be assessed at the 8^th grade level statewide.

• Possible sample questions from the 09 statewide assessment

• Comments regarding the assessment sample items