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Dr. Margaret Honey Vice President Education Development Center (EDC) Margaret Honey is vice president of the Education Development Center (EDC) and director of EDC's Center for Children and Technology (www.edc.org/CCT). In the latter capacity, she is also the coauthor of Assessment of 21st Century Skills: The Current Landscape, a report of assessments published by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (www.21stcenturyskills.org).

Kate Kemker Director of Instructional Technology Florida Department of Education Kate Kemker, director of instructional technology for the Florida Department of Education, has worked with a state team that created a simulation-based assessment of technology skills for teachers known as the Inventory of Teacher Technology Skills. She now works on a similar inventory for eighth-grade students to be used in the spring of 2006. See www.flstar.org.

Greg Pearson Program Officer National Academy of Engineering Greg Pearson, program officer with the National Academy of Engineering in Washington, DC, serves as the responsible staff officer for Assessing Technological Literacy in the United States, a study funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the State Educators' Symposium on Technological Literacy project, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Education. He is the lead author of Technically Speaking, Why All American Need to Know More About Technology (National Academy Press, 2002) and a related report on assessment to be published in 2005. See www.nae.edu/techlit.

Martin Ripley Director, eStrategy Unit Quality and Curriculum Authority, United Kingdom Martin Ripley heads the eStrategy Unit of the United Kingdom's Quality and Curriculum Authority (QCA). In that capacity, he has led groundbreaking work on assessing technology skills and higher order thinking via simulations. His work differs from other such work because it looks at large patterns of activity rather than solely at a final answer. See www.qca.org.uk and www.ks3ictpilot.com.