Making the Grade: Reviewing Student

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Making the Grade Reviewing Student Staff
Technology Assessments

• IMT Regional Meetings
• October 2008

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Technology Needs Assessments
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Technology Needs Assessments

• LEAs responsible for the same areas of emphasis
• Student Proficiency
• Educator Proficiency
• Teaching Learning Practices
• Access to Resources/Tools
• Systems Support/Leadership

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Technology Needs Assessments

• There is no single assessment that will provide
  you with all the information that enGauge did.
• LEAs will need to use multiple assessments to
  gather data from the 5 areas of emphasis!
• In InfoTech Plan -- tell the reader what you
  learned from the data analysis!!!

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Technology Needs Assessments
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Tools to Assist LEAs

• School Technology Needs Assessment (STNA)
• http//www.serve.org/Evaluation/Capacity/EvalFrame
  work/resources/STNA.php
• Free, quick, paper or online
• Easy to read reports
• YOU GET THE DATA
• TLP, Access, Sys Support, Ed Prof (some)

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Tools to Assist LEAs

• Profiling Educational Technology Integration
  (PETI)
• http//www. setda-peti.org/
• Paper (free) can be made into online
• Teacher -- Building -- District Survey
• SIMILAR to enGauge
• TLP, Access, Sys Support, Ed Prof (some)

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Tools to Assist LEAs

• ProfilerPRO
• http//www.profilerpro.com/
• Free, online, fast, individual or group
• Allows for some modifications
• Aimed at Teachers
• Can be used with students with caveats
• TLP, Ed Prof, Student Prof

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Tools to Assist LEAs

• Taking A Good Look at Instructional Technology
  (TAGLIT)
• http//www.testkids.com/taglit/
• Comprehensive
• Reasonable - free to take - reports cost 50 or
  75 each
• Hits all 5 areas
• TLP, Access, Sys Support, Ed Prof, Student Prof

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Tools to Assist LEAs

• Levels of Technology Integration (LoTi)
• http//www.loticonnection.com/
• LoTi Digital-Age Survey
• FREE to take, reports costs will vary -- 250
  yearly access
• TLP, Access, Ed Prof

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Tools to Assist LEAs

• TechSteps
• http//www.schoolkit.com
• Teacher led electronic activity books K-8
• Students build their own information products
  using real-world software applications
• Complete package - online record keeping
• ISTE NetsS and P21 alignment
• Student Prof

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Tools to Assist LEAs

• TechYES
• http//www.genyes.net/programs/techyes
• TechYES TehYes-Science -- Student Technology
  Literacy Certification
• Project based learning for the middle years
• Cost 495/595 for first 30, then variable
• Complete package
• Student Prof

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Tools to Assist LEAs

• TechLiteracy Assessment
• http//www.learning.com/
• TechLiteracy Assessment - authentically assesses
  students technology knowledge/skills in
• Spreadsheets -- Word processing -- Database --
  Multimedia/presentations -- Telecom/Internet --
  Systems/fundamentals -- Social/ethical issues
• Cost per pupil???
• Stud Prof

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Tools to Assist LEAs

• K to the 8th Power
• http//www.kto8.com/
• provide an easy-to-use platform for developing
  computer literacy and applied technology skills.
• Online -- very PC centric - but adaptable
• Costs???
• Stud Prof

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Tools to Assist LEAs

• TRAILS Tools for Real-Time Assessment of
  Information Literacy Skills
• http//www.trails-9.org/
• Online, knowledge assessment, multiple-choice
  questions
• Targets a variety of information literacy skills
  based on sixth and ninth grade standards (Ohio)
• Student Prof

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Tools to Assist LEAs

• Certiport IC3
• http//info.certiport.com
• Knowledge based online for Microsoft products
• Student Prof
• North Carolina Test of Computer Skills
• http//www.ncpublicschools.org/accountability/test
  ing/computerskills/handbook/
• Student Prof

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Tools to Assist LEAs

• ISTE Technology Support Index
• http//tsi.iste.org/
• Online, easy to use
• TLP, Access, Sys Support
• ISTECot (Classroom Observation Tool)
• http//iste.org/icot
• FREE online tool -- questions to guide classroom
  observations of a number of key components of
  technology integration.
• Educ Prof

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Tools to Assist LEAs

• Route 21
• http//www.21stcenturyskills.org/route21/index.php
  
• Georgia Tech Literacy Assesment Toolkit
• http//www.georgiastandards.org/toolkit.aspx
• Connecticut Student Tech Assessments
• http//www.learncit.org/sta/index.html
• IMSA 21st Century Information Fluency Project
• http//21cif.imsa.edu

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Grade 8 Literacy Reporting
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Questions?

• Stuart Ciske
• stuart.ciske_at_dpi.wi.gov
• Voice 608-267-9289
• Fax [phone]
• Wisconsin DPI
• Instructional Media Technology
• 125 South Webster Street - PO Box 7841
• Madison, WI 53707-7841
• http//dpi.wi.gov/imt