Evaluation

 

Planning into Practice: Resources for Planning, Implementing, and Integrating Instructional Technology

Now available in downloadable print form Adobe® PDF downloadable file.  Based on previous work with SEIR*TEC intensive sites this document provides a variety of tools, examples, and stories useful in helping districts and schools create strategic educational technology plans.

 

Review of the Professional Literature on the Integration of Technology into Educational Programs

SERVE has been studying promising practices for integrating technology into schools and classrooms across the Southeast. This narrative provides the highlights of the review related to the state of technology availability in American schools, barriers to technology integration, characteristics of successful programs, and factors that affect teachers’ use of technology.

School Technology Needs Assessment (STNA)

This instrument collects data describing what respondents think about a variety of broad areas of technology implementation in their school. Analysis of data provides a picture of the school as a whole, rather than of individual staff members, presented as frequencies and percentages of responses to all items, and bar graph representations of those values. The STNA (say, "Stenna") is free and is intended for use in K-12 education settings.

 

SEIR*TEC Technology Integration Progress Gauge 

The SEIR*TEC Progress Gauge was originally developed as a reflection tool to be used over time to determine changes in the various domains. The content has been reformatted as forty discrete statements rather than groupings of similar statements and is available in a downloadable print form.

Stories with Data and Data with Stories

Many school districts are facing loud calls for proof of results from the investments and efforts in technology. Educators are searching for tools and instruments to measure and document the impact of technology, particularly microcomputers, on teaching and learning. This reprint from the April 1999 issue of T.H.E. Journal presents several approaches and tools for documenting technology impact.

Survey of Profiling Instruments

This chart compares the areas addressed by the SEIR*TEC Technology Integration Progress Gauge to those addressed by the Milken Seven Dimensions, the CEO Forum STAR Chart, the NCRTEC Profiling tool, the NSSE indicators, the National School Board Association's ITTE toolkit, and several others. All of these tools are useful in tracking technology implementation.

Statewide Educational Networking Trends and Issues Highlighted

A policy paper defining the trends in statewide wide area networking (WAN) including funding, management, organization, and technologies used. Intended audience: State policy makers.

Technology Project Evaluation Instrument

An evaluation instrument for reflecting and tracking progress in implementing a technology product. Developed in collaboration with North Carolina’s Department of Public Instruction as part of the Technology Literacy Challenge Grant program.

Technology Standards for Teachers

An 8-page policy brief describing the development of statewide technology competencies for teachers in sixteen southeastern states. Includes a brief description of ISTE standards, a chart of licensing requirements and technology standards in the selected states, and two state reports (Georgia’s InTech professional development program and North Carolina’s licensing requirements).

Using Technology to Support School-Family-Community Partnership Survey

This survey is designed to help schools determine parent and staff perceptions regarding the use of technology to support school-family-community partnerships. It is specifically intended to provide information to help school-level planners - administrators, technology and media specialists, and school or technology planning team members - make decisions about the use of technology to support the school's family and community involvement efforts.

Writing Winning Technology Grant Proposals

Key elements of a training notebook originally designed to help educators write successful Technology Literacy Challenge Grant Proposals. Provides examples of good proposals, important proposal components, review criteria, and helpful hints. Developed collaboratively between SEIR*TEC and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.

 

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