Evaluating Technology in Teacher Education: Lessons from the Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers for Technology (Pt3) Program

Overall we come away from this project with a renewed sense of the complexity of evaluating the implementation and impact of technology in teacher education. In the post—PT3 period the federal government turned to large—scale experimental and quasi—experimental evaluations of educational technology but these have produced little in the way of understanding what types of technology work in various content areas under various conditions. PT3 and its approach to evaluation can be viewed as the...