Technology assessment is the process of identifying, analyzing, and evaluating potential consequences of technology. Tools for assessing and forecasting impact include relevance trees and futures wheels. Activities based on these tools can be used to teach assessment to technology education students. (SK)

It is the conclusion of the Committee on Assessing Technological Literacy, a study panel appointed by the National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council, that very little is known about what children or adults know, can do, and believe about technology. This is because the state of assessment related to technology--or, …