Planning for Evaluation

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Tools for Evaluating
Technology Projects and Programs

Annotated Bibliography

Finding an evaluation tool that has been tried and tested gives you a step ahead. The resources listed below have been used or developed by SEIR*TEC or their colleague RTEC’s and are worth considering when you are searching for a tool to use to evaluate your technology initiative.

• CEO Forum STaR Chart
• enGauge
• Insight South Central RTEC Instrument Library and Data Recovery
• Learning from Logic Models: An Example of a Family/School Partnership Program
• NCRTEC
• Planning into Practice: Chapter 7 Evaluation
• Profiler
• SEIR*TEC Progress Gauge
• TAGLIT

CEO Forum STaR Chart
Developed by the CEO Forum on Education & Technology, the STaR Chart identifies and defines four school profiles ranging from the "Early Tech" school with little or no technology to the "Target Tech" school that provides a model for the integration and innovative use of education technology. The STaR Chart is not intended to be a measure of any particular school’s technology and readiness, but rather to serve as a benchmark against which every school can assess and track its own progress.

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enGauge
Developed by NCREL with the Metiri Group, enGauge provides a comprehensive view of critical factors in an educational system that strongly influence the effectiveness of educational technology. enGauge is a Web-based framework and tool set designed to help schools and districts use technology effectively for learning, teaching, and managing. The enGauge framework identifies Six Essential Conditions, system wide factors critical to effective uses of technology for student learning.

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Insight South Central RTEC Instrument Library and Data Recovery
INSIGHT, the South Central RTEC Instrument Library and Data Repository, is an evaluation resource that serves a broad range of educational constituents. It consists of two distinct but interrelated components:

• The INSIGHT Instrument Library provides a centralized library of Web-enabled educational evaluation surveys and instruments, available for program/project evaluators in K-16 education.
• The INSIGHT Data Repository is a research tool containing the accumulated historical record of administrations of evaluation instruments housed in the Instrument Library.

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Learning from Logic Models: An Example of a Family/School Partnership Program
This brief offers a step-by-step approach for developing and using a logic model as a framework for a program or organization’s evaluation. Its purpose is to provide a tool to guide evaluation processes and to facilitate practitioner and evaluator partnerships.

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NCRTEC
Developed by the NCRTEC, the Learning with Technology Profile Tool will allow comparison of current instructional practices with a set of indicators for engaged learning and high-performance technology. For each category, there is a description of the indicators and examples that fall along a continuum.

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Planning into Practice: Chapter 7 Evaluation
As a result of SEIR*TEC's work at various school sites during the first project period, several valuable tools were identified that are particularly useful in helping districts and schools create strategic educational technology plans. Chapter 7 of this publication deals with evaluation and provides several tools that may be useful for program evaluation. This publication is available on line in pdf format.

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Profiler
Developed by HPRTEC, the Profiler tool and ready-to-use surveys offer a group a means to improve their skills around a general topic, strengthen their understanding of a topic, or increase their ability to share expertise. Surveys can be customized for a group and stored on and accessed from the HPRTEC server.

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SEIR*TEC Progress Gauge
Developed by SEIR*TEC, the Progress Gauge is used to help school leaders reflect on activities to date in technology integration, think about what needs to be done in order to impact teaching and learning through the use of technology resources, and consider strategies for maximizing the impact of technology. The SEIR*TEC Progress Gauge is also available in an online format in conjunction with HPRTEC using the Profiler tool.

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TAGLIT
Originally designed for use by North Carolina educators, Taking A Good Look at Instructional Technology (TAGLIT) is a suite of assessment tools designed to help principals and other school leaders gather, analyze, and report information about how technology is used for teaching and learning in their schools.

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—by Dan Shoemaker, SEIR*TEC

and Jennifer Burke, Centennial Elementary