Title: BPS CTE Technology and Engineering Standards Book
Course: CTE-S (TEC) Technology Standards > Section: Standards Workspace

Introduction

Technology and Engineering Standards

The CTE-S (TEC) Technology and Engineering Standards course in Learnbps is Bismarck Public School District's current progress on prioritizing and deconstructing standards to provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn. The standards are designed to provide guidance so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help students. Plus help students reflect on the knowledge and skills that they need for success.

Grade Levels
Domains

Identifier Explanation

TEC-MS.4.3.04

The Bismarck Public School District Standards-Based Progress Report displays grades at the concept level. Therefore Bismarck Public School District has modified the North Dakota DPI Identifiers to fit into our student information system PowerSchool for Standards-Based grading. Above is a CTE-Standards TEC identifier with smaller muted text showing the addition  to the identifier that are the components that BPS adds to the State code.

TEC-MS.4.04

TEC

Subject

TEC Technology and Engineering

In a word, Technology Education is about Innovation!
It is about how people think and how to apply
technologysolutions to the problems facing society.
The aim is to solve problems and create opportunities
within a realistic context.
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Grade Level

Middle School

The grade levels address what students should know
and be able to do in the area of Social Studies education
by the end of grades
-K2 for (1) PreK-2
-35 for (2) Grades 3-5
-MS for (3) Grades 6-8
-HS for (4) Grades 9-12
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Domain

The overarching domain across all levels are

- 1: Parent Standard 1 - Nature and Characteristics of Technology and Engineering
- 2: Parent Standard 2 - Core Concepts of Technology and Engineering
- 3: Parent Standard 3 - Integration of Knowledge, Technologies, and Practices
- 4: Parent Standard 4 - Impact of Technology
- 5: Parent Standard 5 - Influence of Society on Technological Development
- 6: Parent Standard 6 - History of Technology
- 7: Parent Standard 7 - Design in Technology and Engineering Education
- 8: Parent Standard 8 - Applying, Maintaining, and Assessing Technological Products and Systems

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Standard.Competency

A statement of what students should know
and be able to do at specified grade levels.

click on the identifier components for more explanations

TEC-MS.4.04 Analyze examples of technologies that have changed the way people think, interact, and communicate.
Note how the identifiers auto-link to the standards global glossaries.

4.3.4

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Standards

The overarching standards across all levels are

- 1: Parent Standard 1 - Nature and Characteristics of Technology and Engineering
- 2: Parent Standard 2 - Core Concepts of Technology and Engineering
- 3: Parent Standard 3 - Integration of Knowledge, Technologies, and Practices
- 4: Parent Standard 4 - Impact of Technology
- 5: Parent Standard 5 - Influence of Society on Technological Development
- 6: Parent Standard 6 - History of Technology
- 7: Parent Standard 7 - Design in Technology and Engineering Education
- 8: Parent Standard 8 - Applying, Maintaining, and Assessing Technological Products and Systems

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Grade Level

Middle School

The grade levels address what students should know
and be able to do in the area of Social Studies education
by the end of grades
1 are PreK-2 (K2)
2 are Grades 3-5 (35)
3 are Grades 6-8 (MS)
4 are Grades 9-12 (HS)
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Competency

A statement of what students should know
and be able to do at specified grade levels.

click on the identifier components for more explanations

State individual grade-specific standards can be identified by their Domain, grade, and standard so that 4.3.4 for example, stands for Standard, Grade, and competence 4.

Technology and Engineering
Education Practices

The technology and engineering practices comprise abilities and disposition that are fundamental to student success. These practices help students engage with the human-designed products, systems and processes we use to satisfy our needs and wants.

TEP-1: Systems Thinking refers to the understanding that technologies contain interconnected components and that these technologies interact with the environments in which they operate and includes the universal systems model.

TEP-2: Creativity is the use of investigation, imagination, innovative thinking and physical skills to accomplish goals.

TEP-3: Making and Doing are at the heart of what make technology & engineering education so different from other fields. Students design, model, build and use technical products and systems.

TEP-4: Critical Thinking involves questioning, logical thinking, reasoning and elaboration in the process of making informed decisions. It also involves analytical thinking; an important component.

TEP-5: Optimism refers to a commitment to finding better solutions to design challenges through experimentation, modeling and adaptation. It reflects a positive view as well as persistence in looking for solutions to technological problems and challenges.

TEP-6: Collaboration refers to having the perspective, knowledge, capabilities and willingness to seek out and include team members when working on design challenges.

TEP-7: Communication in technology and engineering can be either to define problems by gaining an understanding of the wants and needs of the user of technology or as a means of developing and explaining choices made in the design process.

TEP-8: Attention to Ethics is at the core of being a human in society. Attention to ethics means focusing on the impact of technological products, systems and process on others and on the environment. Students should evaluate risks and consider trade-offs in their decision making.

Technology and Engineering
Education Contexts

The technology and engineering contexts are grouped into eight areas that broadly represent the breadth of technological activity. Contexts are vehicles for teaching and applying core disciplinary standards and practices.

TEC-1: Computation, Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

TEC-2: Material Conversion and Processing

TEC-3: Transportation and Logistics

TEC-4: Energy and Power

TEC-5: Information and Communication

TEC-6: The Built Environment

TEC-7: Medical and Health-Related Technologies

TEC-8: Agricultural and Biological Technologies

Standards Global Glossaries

Middle School Tech Ed Standards
TEC-MS Standards (Level 3)
TEC-HS Standards (Level 4)

Navigation Tips

TEC Book Navigation

Below is a screenshot of the first page of the BPS CTE Technology and Engineering Standards Book.

Press on the H5P interactive hotspots to learn more about how to navigate the book module in Learnbps. A popup will display the header and the explanation.

Note: Fullscreen option

Grade Levels

The ND CTE Technology Education Standards/competencies are organized into 4 levels. Levels 1 and 2 are elementary while Levels 3 and 4 are for secondary.

Middle School
TEC-MS Standards (Level 3)

Courses:

- (6123, 6223) Introduction to Technology 6
- (7561, 7223) Exploring Technology
- (8213) Technology Innovation 8
- (8224, 8461) Applying Technology

High School
TEC-HS Standards (Level 4)

Courses:

- Architecture Design
- Arts/Communication
- Building Systems
- Building Systems II
- Construction Technology II
- Creative Engineering I
- Creative Engineering II
- Energy & Power Production
- Engineering & 3-D Design II
- Engineering CWE

- Foundations of Agriculture Block
- Foundations of Technology
- Intro to Computer Software
- Manufacturing
- Networking
- Networking Fundamentals I Online
- Robotics Engineering
- Tech Design/3D Modeling
- Tech Systems
- Technical Video Production
- Technology Innovations Block

MS (Grades 6-8)

TEC-MS Standards (Level 3)

TEC-MS.1    Standard 1 - Nature and Characteristics of Technology and Engineering

- TEC-MS.1.01    Develop innovative products and systems that solve problems and extend capabilities based on individual or collective needs and wants.
- TEC-MS.1.02    Compare and contrast the contributions of science, engineering, mathematics, and technology in the development of technological systems.
- TEC-MS.1.03    Explain how technology and engineering are closely linked to creativity, which can result in both intended and unintended innovations.
- TEC-MS.1.04    Apply creative problem-solving strategies to the improvement of existing devices or processes or the development of new approaches

TEC-MS.2    Standard 2 - Core Concepts of Technology and Engineering

- TEC-MS.2.01    Differentiate between inputs, processes, outputs, and feedback in technological systems.
- TEC-MS.2.02     Illustrate how systems thinking involves considering relationships between every part, as well as how the system interacts with the environment in which it is used.
- TEC-MS.2.03    Create an open-loop system that has no feedback path and requires human intervention.
- TEC-MS.2.04    Create a closed-loop system that has a feedback path and requires no human intervention.
- TEC-MS.2.05    Predict outcomes of a future product or system at the beginning of the design process.
- TEC-MS.2.06    Compare how different technologies involve different sets of processes.
- TEC-MS.2.07    Defend decisions related to a design problem.

TEC-MS.3    Standard 3 - Integration of Knowledge, Technologies, and Practices

- TEC-MS.3.01    Analyze how different technological systems often interact with economic, environmental, and social systems.
- TEC-MS.3.02    Apply a product, system, or process developed for one setting to another setting.
- TEC-MS.3.03    Explain how knowledge gained from other content areas affects the development of technological products and systems.

TEC-MS.4    Standard 4 - Impact of Technology

- TEC-MS.4.01    Explain the ways that technology can have both positive and negative effects at the same time.
- TEC-MS.4.02    Analyze how the creation and use of technologies consumes renewable and non-renewable resources and creates waste.
- TEC-MS.4.03    Devise strategies for reducing, reusing, and recycling waste caused from the creation and use of technology.
- TEC-MS.4.04    Analyze examples of technologies that have changed the way people think, interact, and communicate.
- TEC-MS.4.05    Hypothesize what alternative outcomes (individual, cultural, and/or environmental) might have resulted had a different technological solution been selected.

TEC-MS.5    Standard 5 - Influence of Society on Technological Development

- TEC-MS.5.01    Analyze how an invention or innovation was influenced by its historical context.
- TEC-MS.5.02    Evaluate trade-offs based on various perspectives as part of a decision process that recognizes the need for careful compromises among competing factors.

TEC-MS.6    Standard 6 - History of Technology

- TEC-MS.6.01    Compare various technologies and how they have contributed to human progress.
- TEC-MS.6.02    Engage in a research and development process to simulate how inventions and innovations have evolved through systematic tests and refinements.
- TEC-MS.6.03    Verify how specialization of function has been at the heart of many technological improvements.

TEC-MS.7    Standard 7 - Design in Technology and Engineering Education

- TEC-MS.7.01    Illustrate the benefits and opportunities associated with different approaches to design.
- TEC-MS.7.02    Apply the technology and engineering design process.
- TEC-MS.7.03    Refine design solutions to address criteria and constraints.
- TEC-MS.7.04    Create solutions to problems by identifying and applying human factors in design.
- TEC-MS.7.05    Assess design quality based upon established principles and elements of design.
- TEC-MS.7.06    Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different design solutions.
- TEC-MS.7.07    Improve essential skills necessary to successfully design.

TEC-MS.8    Standard 8 - Applying, Maintaining, and Assessing Technological Products and Systems

- TEC-MS.8.01    Research information from various sources to use and maintain technological products or systems.
- TEC-MS.8.02    Use tools, materials, and machines to safely diagnose, adjust, and repair systems.
- TEC-MS.8.03    Use devices to control technological systems.
- TEC-MS.8.04    Design methods to gather data about technological systems.
- TEC-MS.8.05    Interpret the accuracy of information collected.
- TEC-MS.8.06    Use instruments to gather data on the performance of everyday products.

HS (Grades 9-12)

TEC-HS Standards (Level 4)

TEC-HS.1    Standard 1 - Nature and Characteristics of Technology and Engineering

- TEC-HS.1.01    Explain how the world around them guides technological development and engineering design.
- TEC-HS.1.02    Assess how similarities and differences among scientific, mathematical, engineering, and technological knowledge and skills contributed to the design of a product or system.
- TEC-HS.1.03    Analyze the rate of technological development and predict future diffusion and adoption of new technologies.
- TEC-HS.1.04    Conduct research to inform intentional inventions and innovations that address specific needs and wants.
- TEC-HS.1.05    Develop a plan that incorporates knowledge from science, mathematics, and other disciplines to design or improve a technological product of system.

TEC-HS.2    Standard 2 - Core Concepts of Technology and Engineering

- TEC-HS.2.01    Demonstrate the use of conceptual, graphical, virtual, mathematical, and physical modeling to identify conflicting considerations before the entire system is developed and to aid in design decision making.
- TEC-HS.2.02    Diagnose a flawed system embedded within a larger technological, social, or environmental system.
- TEC-HS.2.03    Analyze the stability of a technological system and how it is influenced by all the components in the system, especially those in the feedback loop.
- TEC-HS.2.04    Select resources that involve tradeoffs between competing values, such as availability, cost, desirability, and waste, while solving problems.
- TEC-HS.2.05    Cite examples of the criteria and constraints of a product or system and how they affect final design.
- TEC-HS.2.06    Implement quality control as a planned process to ensure that a product, service, or system meets established criteria.
- TEC-HS.2.07    Use management processes in planning, organizing, and controlling work.

TEC-HS.3    Standard 3 - Integration of Knowledge, Technologies, and Practices

- TEC-HS.3.01    Analyze how technology transfer occurs when a user applies an existing innovation developed for one function to a different purpose.
- TEC-HS.3.02    Evaluate how technology enhances opportunities for new products and services through globalization.
- TEC-HS.3.03    Connect technological progress to the advancement of other areas of knowledge, and vice versa.

TEC-HS.4    Standard 4 - Impact of Technology

- TEC-HS.4.01    Evaluate ways that technology can impact individuals, society, and the environment.
- TEC-HS.4.02    Critique whether existing and proposed technologies use resources sustainably.
- TEC-HS.4.03    Assess a technology that minimizes resource use and resulting waste to achieve a goal.
- TEC-HS.4.04    Develop a solution to a technological problem that has the least negative environmental and social impact.
- TEC-HS.4.05    Evaluate how technologies alter human health and capabilities.

TEC-HS.5    Standard 5 - Influence of Society on Technological Development

- TEC-HS.5.01    Evaluate a technological innovation that arose from a specific society’s unique need or want.
- TEC-HS.5.02    Evaluate a technological innovation that was met with societal resistance, impacting its development.
- TEC-HS.5.03    Design an appropriate technology for use in a different culture.

TEC-HS.6    Standard 6 - History of Technology

- TEC-HS.6.01    Relate how technological development has been evolutionary, often the result of a series of refinements to basic inventions or technological knowledge.
- TEC-HS.6.02    Verify that the evolution of civilization has been directly affected by, and has in turn affected, the development and use of tools, materials, and processes.
- TEC-HS.6.03    Evaluate how technology has been a powerful force in reshaping social, cultural, political, and economic landscapes throughout history.
- TEC-HS.6.04    Analyze how the Industrial Revolution resulted in the development of mass production, sophisticated transportation, and communication systems, advanced construction practices, and improved education and leisure time.
- TEC-HS.6.05    Investigate the widespread changes that have resulted from the Information Age, which has placed emphasis on the processing and exchange of information.

TEC-HS.7    Standard 7 - Design in Technology and Engineering Education

- TEC-HS.7.01    Determine the best approach by evaluating the purpose of the design.
- TEC-HS.7.02    Document trade-offs in the technology and engineering design process to produce the optimal design.
- TEC-HS.7.03    Optimize a design by addressing desired qualities within criteria and constraints.
- TEC-HS.7.04    Apply principles of human-centered design.
- TEC-HS.7.05    Illustrate principles, elements, and factors of design.
- TEC-HS.7.06    Implement the best possible solution to a design.
- TEC-HS.7.07    Apply a broad range of design skills to their design process.
- TEC-HS.7.08    Apply a broad range of making skills to their design process.

TEC-HS.8    Standard 8 - Applying, Maintaining, and Assessing Technological Products and Systems

- TEC-HS.8.01    Use various approaches to communicate processes and procedures for using, maintaining, and assessing technological products and systems.
- TEC-HS.8.02    Develop a device or system for the marketplace.
- TEC-HS.8.03    Apply appropriate methods to diagnose, adjust, and repair systems to ensure precise, safe, and proper functionality.
- TEC-HS.8.04    Synthesize data and analyze trends to make decisions about technological products, systems, or processes.
- TEC-HS.8.05    Interpret the results of technology assessment to guide policy development.

Domains

Standard 1 | Standard 2 | Standard 3 | Standard 4

Standard 5 | Standard 6 | Standard 7 | Standard 8

TEC-MS Standards (Level 3)

TEC-HS Standards (Level 4)

TEC Standard 1 - Nature and Characteristics of Technology and Engineering

TEC-MS.1 Middle School

- TEC-MS.1.01    Develop innovative products and systems that solve problems and extend capabilities based on individual or collective needs and wants.
- TEC-MS.1.02    Compare and contrast the contributions of science, engineering, mathematics, and technology in the development of technological systems.
- TEC-MS.1.03    Explain how technology and engineering are closely linked to creativity, which can result in both intended and unintended innovations.
- TEC-MS.1.04 Apply creative problem-solving strategies to the improvement of existing devices or processes or the development of new approaches

TEC-HS.1 High School

- TEC-HS.1.01    Explain how the world around them guides technological development and engineering design.
- TEC-HS.1.02    Assess how similarities and differences among scientific, mathematical, engineering, and technological knowledge and skills contributed to the design of a product or system.
- TEC-HS.1.03    Analyze the rate of technological development and predict future diffusion and adoption of new technologies.
- TEC-HS.1.04    Conduct research to inform intentional inventions and innovations that address specific needs and wants.
- TEC-HS.1.05    Develop a plan that incorporates knowledge from science, mathematics, and other disciplines to design or improve a technological product of system.

TEC Standard 2 - Core Concepts of Technology and Engineering

TEC-MS.2 Middle School

- TEC-MS.2.01 Differentiate between inputs, processes, outputs, and feedback in technological systems.
- TEC-MS.2.02 Illustrate how systems thinking involves considering relationships between every part, as well as how the system interacts with the environment in which it is used.
- TEC-MS.2.03 Create an open-loop system that has no feedback path and requires human intervention.
- TEC-MS.2.04 Create a closed-loop system that has a feedback path and requires no human intervention.
- TEC-MS.2.05 Predict outcomes of a future product or system at the beginning of the design process.
- TEC-MS.2.06 Compare how different technologies involve different sets of processes.
- TEC-MS.2.07 Defend decisions related to a design problem.

TEC-HS.2 High School

- TEC-HS.2.01 Demonstrate the use of conceptual, graphical, virtual, mathematical, and physical modeling to identify conflicting considerations before the entire system is developed and to aid in design decision making.
- TEC-HS.2.02 Diagnose a flawed system embedded within a larger technological, social, or environmental system.
- TEC-HS.2.03 Analyze the stability of a technological system and how it is influenced by all the components in the system, especially those in the feedback loop.
- TEC-HS.2.04 Select resources that involve tradeoffs between competing values, such as availability, cost, desirability, and waste, while solving problems.
- TEC-HS.2.05 Cite examples of the criteria and constraints of a product or system and how they affect final design.
- TEC-HS.2.06 Implement quality control as a planned process to ensure that a product, service, or system meets established criteria.
- TEC-HS.2.07 Use management processes in planning, organizing, and controlling work.

TEC Standard 3 - Integration of Knowledge, Technologies, and Practices

TEC-MS.3 Middle School

- TEC-MS.3.01 Analyze how different technological systems often interact with economic, environmental, and social systems.
- TEC-MS.3.02 Apply a product, system, or process developed for one setting to another setting.
- TEC-MS.3.03 Explain how knowledge gained from other content areas affects the development of technological products and systems

TEC-HS.3 High School

- TEC-HS.3.01 Analyze how technology transfer occurs when a user applies an existing innovation developed for one function to a different purpose.
- TEC-HS.3.02 Evaluate how technology enhances opportunities for new products and services through globalization.
- TEC-HS.3.03 Connect technological progress to the advancement of other areas of knowledge, and vice versa.

TEC Standard 4 - Impact of Technology

TEC-MS.4 Middle School

- TEC-MS.4.01 Explain the ways that technology can have both positive and negative effects at the same time.
- TEC-MS.4.02 Analyze how the creation and use of technologies consumes renewable and non-renewable resources and creates waste.
- TEC-MS.4.03 Devise strategies for reducing, reusing, and recycling waste caused from the creation and use of technology.
- TEC-MS.4.04 Analyze examples of technologies that have changed the way people think, interact, and communicate.
- TEC-MS.4.05 Hypothesize what alternative outcomes (individual, cultural, and/or environmental) might have resulted had a different technological solution been selected.

TEC-HS.4 High School

- TEC-HS.4.01 Evaluate ways that technology can impact individuals, society, and the environment.
- TEC-HS.4.02 Critique whether existing and proposed technologies use resources sustainably.
- TEC-HS.4.03 Assess a technology that minimizes resource use and resulting waste to achieve a goal.
- TEC-HS.4.04 Develop a solution to a technological problem that has the least negative environmental and social impact.
- TEC-HS.4.05 Evaluate how technologies alter human health and capabilities.

TEC Standard 5 - Influence of Society on Technological Development

TEC-MS.5 Middle School

- TEC-MS.5.01 Analyze how an invention or innovation was influenced by its historical context.
- TEC-MS.5.02 Evaluate trade-offs based on various perspectives as part of a decision process that recognizes the need for careful compromises among competing factors.

TEC-HS.5 High School

- TEC-HS.5.01 Evaluate a technological innovation that arose from a specific society’s unique need or want.
- TEC-HS.5.02 Evaluate a technological innovation that was met with societal resistance, impacting its development.
- TEC-HS.5.03 Design an appropriate technology for use in a different culture.

TEC Standard 6 - History of Technology

TEC-MS.6 Middle School

- TEC-MS.6.01 Compare various technologies and how they have contributed to human progress.
- TEC-MS.6.02 Engage in a research and development process to simulate how inventions and innovations have evolved through systematic tests and refinements.
- TEC-MS.6.03 Verify how specialization of function has been at the heart of many technological improvements.

TEC-HS.6 High School

- TEC-HS.6.01 Relate how technological development has been evolutionary, often the result of a series of refinements to basic inventions or technological knowledge.
- TEC-HS.6.02 Verify that the evolution of civilization has been directly affected by, and has in turn affected, the development and use of tools, materials, and processes.
- TEC-HS.6.03 Evaluate how technology has been a powerful force in reshaping social, cultural, political, and economic landscapes throughout history.
- TEC-HS.6.04 Analyze how the Industrial Revolution resulted in the development of mass production, sophisticated transportation, and communication systems, advanced construction practices, and improved education and leisure time.
- TEC-HS.6.05 Investigate the widespread changes that have resulted from the Information Age, which has placed emphasis on the processing and exchange of information.

TEC Standard 7 - Design in Technology and Engineering Education

TEC-MS.7 Middle School

- TEC-MS.7.01 Illustrate the benefits and opportunities associated with different approaches to design.
- TEC-MS.7.02 Apply the technology and engineering design process.
- TEC-MS.7.03 Refine design solutions to address criteria and constraints.
- TEC-MS.7.04 Create solutions to problems by identifying and applying human factors in design.
- TEC-MS.7.05 Assess design quality based upon established principles and elements of design.
- TEC-MS.7.06 Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different design solutions.
- TEC-MS.7.07 Improve essential skills necessary to successfully design.

TEC-HS.7 High School

- TEC-HS.7.01 Determine the best approach by evaluating the purpose of the design.
- TEC-HS.7.02 Document trade-offs in the technology and engineering design process to produce the optimal design.
- TEC-HS.7.03 Optimize a design by addressing desired qualities within criteria and constraints.
- TEC-HS.7.04 Apply principles of human-centered design.
- TEC-HS.7.05 Illustrate principles, elements, and factors of design.
- TEC-HS.7.06 Implement the best possible solution to a design.
- TEC-HS.7.07 Apply a broad range of design skills to their design process.
- TEC-HS.7.08 Apply a broad range of making skills to their design process.

TEC Standard 8 - Applying, Maintaining, and Assessing Technological Products and Systems

TEC-MS.8 Middle School

- TEC-MS.8.01 Research information from various sources to use and maintain technological products or systems.
- TEC-MS.8.02 Use tools, materials, and machines to safely diagnose, adjust, and repair systems.
- TEC-MS.8.03 Use devices to control technological systems.
- TEC-MS.8.04 Design methods to gather data about technological systems.
- TEC-MS.8.05 Interpret the accuracy of information collected.
- TEC-MS.8.06 Use instruments to gather data on the performance of everyday products.

TEC-HS.8 High School

- TEC-HS.8.01 Use various approaches to communicate processes and procedures for using, maintaining, and assessing technological products and systems.
- TEC-HS.8.02 Develop a device or system for the marketplace.
- TEC-HS.8.03 Apply appropriate methods to diagnose, adjust, and repair systems to ensure precise, safe, and proper functionality.
- TEC-HS.8.04 Synthesize data and analyze trends to make decisions about technological products, systems, or processes.
- TEC-HS.8.05 Interpret the results of technology assessment to guide policy development.