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standards in your study, remember to request permission from ISTE at iste. org/permissions.) You may also be interested in submitting this research to one of ISTE’s two prestigious academic journals, the Journal of Research on Technology in Education ( iste.org/jrte) or the Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education ( iste.org/jdlte). These journals are peer reviewed, meaning that they send each manuscript to other researchers for evaluation to ensure that every study is of high quality.

Good, rigorous research provides new insights and answers to our questions. It also provides critical information about what works in education and what doesn’t, and it becomes fuel for policy changes that will benefit our students. I hope you will accept these calls to action and be part of making those changes!

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the ISTE Standards•T. They found that the preservice teachers made significant progress in technology knowledge in all five standards in the set. However, they found that the course did not address some of the performance indicators.

Researchers have also found that new teachers often lack knowledge about how to use technology because their college professors didn’t have the skills and knowledge to model good technology use when they were in teacher training. Turkish researcher Muzaffer Elmas used the ISTE Standards•T to examine faculty use of technology at one college to see if it aligned with the standards. The study found that it did match up to the standards in many ways, depending on the lecturers’ age and computer experience.

The evidence I found is probably just scraping the surface of the many ways researchers use the ISTE Standards. I think it would be interesting and useful to collect a database of ISTE Standards–based research to gain a better understanding of how they can be used. Therefore, I would like you to help me create such a record! I have published a Google Form (goo. gl/RE7El T) where you can submit research you have read or published. If you want to review the studies reported so far, you can access the database ( goo.gl/G9yS9P). You will notice that the first few studies in this database are those mentioned in this article.

For those who conduct research, we would also like you to consider the ways you can use the ISTE Standards in your studies. (If you plan to reproduce or modify the text of the

ISTE Standards The ISTE Standards were used for:

ISTE Standards•S • Evaluating students’ skills as they complete high school and go on to college

• Measuring student and teacher technology use at different grade levels

• Examining what needs to be better addressed in teacher education programs to help provide recommendations for addressing neglected areas

ISTE Standards•T • Measuring the TPACK confidence of inservice science teachers

• Assessing whether teachers are following the standards when faced with new technologies

• Measuring teacher candidate proficiencies in the final year of study

• Examining college/university faculty use of the standards

• Evaluating and finding exemplary models of teacher education

• Exploring adaptations of the standards for use in higher education

ISTE Standards•A • Determining what technology skills administrators have and what they are lacking

• Examining the competencies found in unique societies (e.g., Native American schools) to determine what skills were lacking and how this society could be supported