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MassCUE Evaluators – Maximizing Your Technology Investment

Learn how to document the impact of instructional technology initiatives and maximize your technology investment with a structured evaluation plan. This document provides insight, examples, and tools to measure success, collect data, analyze findings, and implement recommendations for improvement.

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MassCUE Evaluators – Maximizing Your Technology Investment

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  1. MassCUE Evaluators – Maximizing Your Technology Investment Documenting the Impact of Instructional Technology Initiatives

  2. Who We Are • Sun Associates • Jeff Sun • Jeanne Clark • www.sun-associates.com/masscue • MassCUE and Boston College

  3. Why Evaluate? • Determine if your investment in instructional technology is “paying off” • Measure progress toward meeting your project goals • Support action planning with data

  4. An Evaluation Plan… • Is organized around the goals of your project • Defines success through the creation of indicators keyed to your project goals • Produces data specifically targeted at measuring success relative to your project goals • Provides feedback and recommendations for improvement

  5. An Example Project • iPad implementation in an elementary school (grades 3 – 5) • Goals… • Increase the ability to support project-based, small group learning • Decrease cost of materials such as texts, reference materials, etc.

  6. Schematic View of the Evaluation Process

  7. Indicators • Pedagogy • Students involved in the iPad project are engaged in student-centered, project-based, activities that make use of 1:1 access to info, resources and collaborative online environments.  Teachers have been provided with the training necessary to support the pedagogy involved in the project. • Materials/Infrastructure

  8. Materials/Infrastructure • Implementation of iPads (1:1) in grades 3 – 5 results in an initial first year savings of 10% compared to the cost of texts, paper resource materials, photocopying, and teacher time involved in moving students to and from the computer lab. 10% additional savings are anticipated for each of the next 3 years.

  9. Data Collection Students involved in the iPad project are engaged in student-centered, project-based, activities that make use of 1:1 access to information, resources and collaborative online environments.  Teachers have been provided with the training necessary to support the pedagogy involved in the project. • Student-centered, project-based, learning • Classroom observations • Teacher focus groups/interviews • Review of lessons plans • Rubrics • 1:1 access • Classroom observations • Information resources, collaborative environments, tools • Classroom observations • Review of lessons and student work product (against rubrics) • Teacher professional development • Teacher learning plans • Professional development observation • Teacher focus groups/interviews • Professional development participant surveys

  10. Analysis and Findings • Data analysis – comparing data to indicators -- will show the degree to which actions (PD, pedagogy, student work, infrastructure implementation) come together to produce the intended result. • Findings are the results of this analysis.

  11. For Example… • If you discover that teachers are not actually using the iPads for project-based learning – what are reasons for this? • One reason might be related to the PD • Did the PD support the development of new pedagogies? • How could the PD – content, structure, follow-up, participation – be modified to better support the initiative?

  12. Recommendations • Findings (analysis) lead to recommendations and reporting. • Recommendations lead to action items. • What are you going to do to implement the recommendations?

  13. What Does This Mean to You? • The MassCUE Evaluators’ project will • Work with a team from your district to develop an evaluation plan with indicators and data collection tools • Offer training and support in data collection and reporting • Position your district to logically reflect upon its progress toward meeting programmatic goals and substantiating your investment in instructional technology

  14. Participation • Each district should register a 4 to 6 person team • Superintendent or Assistant Superintendent • Technology specialist or coordinator • Curriculum and Instruction specialist • Professional development specialist • Classroom teacher or instructional specialist who works with students • MassCUE members fee = $2400 for a 4-person team ($3400 for a 6-person team) • 4 full-day sessions starting in January, 2012 (2 in January, 1 in February, and 1 in March) • Fee covers lunch and follow-up support by Sun Associates and Boston College

  15. Ingrid Eppelsheimer at ieppelsheimer@fc.masscue.org

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