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Progress toward this vision is evidence by the COE's exceptionally high pass rates on state teacher exams which include technology integration, faculty increased personal development and use of technology, and collaborative efforts which extend the COEs arm into the community.

Our COE is both state and nationally certified; we are proud of our recent 100% pass rate on state teacher exams: http://www.education.sfasu.edu/coe/html/nationalreportcard.htm

Educator Candidates (and the students they teach) are required to have certain technology skills. These are called the Technology Application Texas Essential Knowledge & Skills (TA TEKS).

TA TEKS are outlined and discussed here:
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/technology/ta/edstd.html

These technology skills are embedded in and assessed on the required state teacher exams.

Texes state teacher exams (TExES) are discussed here.
http://texes.ets.org/texes/AboutTheTest/

July 4, 2006 email response from Dr. Wynter Chauvin, ELE 304 Technology professor and Chair of the new Information Technology Committee:

Right now they (TA TEKS) are integrated into the general test (TExES). If you want a specific "certification" in Technology Applications you can take either the 8-12 Tech App TExES or the K-12 Tech App TExES.

As far as to how we are doing for the general questions regarding the TEKS that include technology (not tech app specific) we are doing fine.

As far as the Tech App specialist we are not doing so well (but we do not have a program that teaches this, per se). Much of it has to do with the lower level software we are teaching and we do not do advanced graphics, animation or any video.

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