ASSESSMENT TECHNOLOGY
Assessment:
In general terms assessment is nothing but, the evaluation or estimation
of the nature, quality, or ability of someone or something, here it is about
assessing a technology.
Assessment Technology:
Assessing a Technology on various parameters, like the features,
abilities, uniqueness durability, requirement, safety and security
. We can observe various
technologies evolving with abundant features, but the reliability of the
technology is a big question, so the assessing a technology takes in-depth
understanding of the latest or existing technology, which helps in choosing a
reliable technology as per the requirement.

History of Technology Assessment:
Technology Assessment became a big deal with the US
Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). Congressional hearings from 1969
prompted open law #92-484 in 1972 building up OTA, with its first appraisal
created in 1974. OTA's subsidizing was ceased in 1995 by a Republican-drove
Congress. See Coates et al. (2001) for a brief history of the development of
the Future-arranged Technology Analyses (FTA) group, including notes about OTA.
See http://www.princeton.edu/~ota/ for an electronic
chronicle of the
several innovation appraisals produced by OTA in addition to great authentic
notes.

Is assessment necessary?
Yes, it is important to have an assessment on the technologies as we an
observe various tools and technologies evolve on regular basis, but its
reliability cannot be ascertained unless it undergo a proper assessment, it’s a
scientific, interactive, and communicative process
that aims to contribute
on its features and the opinion of users.

We can observe few Technology assessment tools in the
video like:
-Live binder
-Moodle website
-Joomag.com
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