Assessing Technology

Author : Armin Grunwald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429809699

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Technology Assessment in Practice and Theory by Armin Grunwald Pdf

Technological advance affects almost all areas of human life. Rapid digitization, increased mobility, new biotechnologies, and nanotechnology deeply influence, amongst others, industrial production, entertainment, work, military affairs, and individual life. Besides overwhelmingly positive effects on wealth, comfort, innovation, and development, this also raises questions of unintended effects, of tensions with democracy, of the role of citizens, and of its sustainability facing environmental issues. Tools and procedures are needed to cope with this challenging situation. Technology assessment (TA) has been developed more than fifty years ago to enable science, the economy, and society to harvest the potential of new technology to the maximum extent possible and to deal responsibly with possible adverse effects. It was developed more than 50 years ago in the U.S. Congress and has diversified considerably in the meantime. Parliamentary TA in many European states and at the international level, participatory TA at the local and regional levels worldwide, and TA as part of engineering processes are the most relevant fields today. Technology assessment is a growing field of interdisciplinary research and scientific policy advice. This volume (a) gives an overview of motivations of TA, its history and its current practices, (b) develops a fresh theoretical perspective on TA rooted in social theory and philosophy, and (c) draws conclusions from the theoretical perspective for the further development of TA’s practices. It provides the first comprehensive view on the growing field of TA at the international level.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention,Division of Health Sciences Policy,Committee for Evaluating Medical Technologies in Clinical Use
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1985-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309035835

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Assessing Medical Technologies by Institute of Medicine,Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention,Division of Health Sciences Policy,Committee for Evaluating Medical Technologies in Clinical Use Pdf

New drugs, new devices, improved surgical techniques, and innovative diagnostic procedures and equipment emerge rapidly. But development of these technologies has outpaced evaluation of their safety, efficacy, cost-effectiveness, and ethical and social consequences. This volume, which is "strongly recommended" by The New England Journal of Medicine "to all those interested in the future of the practice of medicine," examines how new discoveries can be translated into better care, and how the current system's inefficiencies prevent effective health care delivery. In addition, the book offers detailed profiles of 20 organizations currently involved in medical technology assessment, and proposes ways to organize U.S. efforts and create a coordinated national system for evaluating new medical treatments and technology.

Author : Richard Kimbell
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997-09-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335232017

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EBOOK: ASSESSING TECHNOLOGY by Richard Kimbell Pdf

How did the development of assessment practices influence the emerging technology curriculum? How does practice in the UK compare to practice in the USA, Germany, Taiwan and Australia? For thirty years the UK has been evolving a distinctive technology curriculum. In part one of this book Richard Kimbell explores the thorny issues of assessment that have been raised by - and that helped to define - the technology curriculum in the UK. Richard writes as an 'insider' who was closely involved in the evolution of GCSE, in the battles that characterised the development of national curriculum assessment, and in the single biggest research venture in the assessment of technology - the Assessment of Performance Unit project of 1985-91. He analyses the successes and the mistakes and brings these together (in chapter 6) into a series of lessons that we should have learned about technology and about assessment. In part two, Richard presents four vignettes of curriculum and assessment practice in technology from the USA, Germany, Taiwan and Australia. In each case the education system, the technology curriculum and its associated assessment practices are outlined. Thereafter - in the final chapter, Richard brings together the lessons learned in the UK with those that might reasonably be learned from practice in the four case study nations.

Author : National Academy of Public Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Technology assessment
ISBN : SRLF:A0000086082

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A Technology Assessment System for the Executive Branch by National Academy of Public Administration Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : LOC:00183669801

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Technology Assessment by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Development Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House Science and Astronautics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119599517

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Technology Assessment, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Development...91-1, November 18, 24; December 2, 3, 4, 8, and 12, 1969 by United States. Congress. House Science and Astronautics Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Federal aid to medical research
ISBN : MINN:31951002941489J

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NCHSR Offers Grants for Research on Health Care Technology Assessment by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stefano Federici,Marcia Scherer
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781351230889

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Assistive Technology Assessment Handbook by Stefano Federici,Marcia Scherer Pdf

Assistive Technology Assessment Handbook, Second Edition, proposes an international ideal model for the assistive technology assessment process, outlining how this model can be applied in practice to re-conceptualize the phases of an assistive technology delivery system according to the biopsychosocial model of disability. The model provides reference guidelines for evidence-based practice, guiding both public and private centers that wish to compare, evaluate, and improve their ability to match a person with the correct technology model. This second edition also offers a contribution to the Global Cooperation on Assistive Technology (GATE) initiative, whose activities are strongly focused on the assistive products service delivery model. Organized into three parts, the handbook: gives readers a toolkit for performing assessments; describes the roles of the assessment team members, among them the new profession of psychotechnologist; and reviews technologies for rehabilitation and independent living, including brain–computer interfaces, exoskeletons, and technologies for music therapy. Edited by Stefano Federici and Marcia J. Scherer, this cross-cultural handbook includes contributions from leading experts across five continents, offering a framework for future practice and research.

Author : Carol A. Chapelle,Dan Douglas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521840217

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Assessing Language Through Computer Technology by Carol A. Chapelle,Dan Douglas Pdf

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Author : Matthew Cotton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783642450884

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Ethics and Technology Assessment: A Participatory Approach by Matthew Cotton Pdf

Whether it is nuclear power, geo-engineering or genetically modified foods, the development of new technologies can be fraught with complex ethical challenges and political controversy which defy simple resolution. In the past two decades there has been a shift towards processes of Participatory Technology Assessment designed to build channels of two-way communication between technical specialists and non-expert citizens, and to incorporate multiple stakeholder perspectives in the governance of contentious technology programmes. This participatory turn has spurred a need for new tools and techniques to encourage group deliberation and capture public values, moral and choices. This book specifically examines the ethical dimensions of controversial technologies, and discusses how these can be evaluated in a philosophically robust manner when the ones doing the deliberating are not ethicists, legal or technical experts. Grounded in philosophical pragmatism and drawing upon empirical work in partnership with citizen-stakeholders, this book presents a model called “Reflective Ethical Mapping” - a new meta-ethical framework and toolbox of techniques to facilitate citizen engagement with technology ethics.

Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Office of International Affairs,Committee on Japan
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992-02-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309047807

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Japan's Growing Technological Capability by National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Office of International Affairs,Committee on Japan Pdf

The perspectives of technologists, economists, and policymakers are brought together in this volume. It includes chapters dealing with approaches to assessment of technology leadership in the United States and Japan, an evaluation of future impacts of eroding U.S. technological preeminence, an analysis of the changing nature of technology-based global competition, and a discussion of policy options for the United States.

Author : Michael Russell
Publisher : IAP
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781607525110

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Technology and Assessment by Michael Russell Pdf

Together, the words technology and assess-ment have different meaning for different people. Those who work with educational or instructional technology take these words to mean assessing the impacts of technology on teaching and learning. Test developers and psychometricians, however, consider ways in which computer-based technologies can be used to enhance current approaches to student assessment. This book examines technology and assessment from both perspectives by examining past, current and promising methodol-ogies and applications in both fields. The influences instructional uses of technology and the increasing reliance on testing to gauge student and school performance have on one another are also explored. The book concludes by describing an organizational structure that could bring instructional applications of technology and assessment practices into closer alignment.

Author : Marcial Velasco Garrido
Publisher : WHO Regional Office Europe
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789289042932

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Health Technology Assessment and Health Policy-making in Europe by Marcial Velasco Garrido Pdf

New technologies with the potential to improve the health of populations are continuously being introduced. But not every technological development results in clear health gains. Health technology assessment provides evidence-based information on the coverage and usage of health technologies, enabling them to be evaluated properly and applied to health care efficaciously, promoting the most effective ones while also taking into account organizational, societal and ethical issues. This book reviews the relationship between health technology assessment and policy-making, and examines how to increase the contribution such research makes to policy- and decision-making processes. By communicating the value and potential of health technology assessment to a wider audience, both within and beyond decision-making and health care management, it aims ultimately to contribute to improve the health status of the population through the delivery of optimum health services.

Author : Ernest Braun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134671472

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Technology in Context by Ernest Braun Pdf

Most managers know very little about the technology they introduce into their firms, often preferring to leave such decisions to a small band of technological 'experts'. As a result large amounts of time and money are often wasted on inappropriate and inefficient systems. The cost of retraining and reorganising can also be prohibitive if the new technology does not deliver the desired results. In a business environment where technology is of increasing importance, the non-technical manager cannot afford to remain in the dark. Technology in Context provides a toolkit of approaches to this difficult subject. Subjects covered include: * the fundamental concepts required for the management of technology * the gathering of information in a firm to support strategic decisions on technology * technology assessment in the public domain * the wider social implications of technology * problems associated with technology, from the danger of environmental degradation to employment and skills.

Author : Eva L. Baker,Harold F. O'Neil
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : 0805812466

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Technology Assessment in Education and Training by Eva L. Baker,Harold F. O'Neil Pdf

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.