Evaluation+Ideas

Add your local evaluation ideas, thoughts, or questions here. Don't forget to identify your district or group! :)

Should students involved in the grant stay together with the technology for 2 years? Whole group or a small group.

SAU 5, SAU 64, SAU 37-- Evaluate student engagement, ability and productivity: Ways to evaluate shall be: Attendance records, discipline records, NECAP scores, student response systems

TEACHER PD- Evaluate lesson plans for LOTI levels--example: before is it lecture based, note taking (level 1-2) and then after or during are the lessons more interactive, collaborative, using experts, etc (level 3-4)

Notes from the Report Out:

SAU 53, Profile, Lafayette

Need for survey to measure time on task for digital tools, Assess instructional time using tools prior to and following the grant, Statewide look at validity and reliability of common evaluation tools developed locally.

Timberlane, Laconia, Somersworth Load the assessments on the tools so they are already there. Use assessment builder, get a scanner sheet, and use them, Push out information to use.

Spoke about pre and post evaluation. Assessing the needs of staff, the perceptions and technology use. Skill sets present and the barriers that are there. Look at project as first phase of professional development model Looked at FL professional development model (add link if you can). Get information, use teachers to look at the information, and use it to drive evaluation and assessment.

Nashua Chester Bartlett Talked in generic terms. Look at comparisons between technology and comparisons over time. What will they measure. Tracking type, frequency of student use, type and frequency of teacher use. What is the function of technology and DOK level. Using flat web pages. Are there trends and patterns to how they use tech. End of day check list of what is used and dhow. Whole class instruction? Literacy walk through, capture snapshots, teachers self reporting, student self reporting. Match the self with walk through. What is happening with DOK and purpose. Sample student artifacts, get info on problem solving, critical thinking. Come up with a common template and report in common way. User friendly way to use it, quick, simple, non-threatening.

Plan to use Loti, but after hearing what others are thinking, Loti is generic, and projects are specific. Like the idea of creating a rubric, survey with common questions. Lot of overlap and there will be feedback that we can share.

Want teacher and student pre and post. Want focus groups Level of tech integration across the school look at the entire star chart and think through the pieces that support school change.

Star Chart enabled reflection of where the school is and how to create change. Gives a holistic picture of school and district. Provides information on level of access of students and teachers.

Like using the star chart. There were considerations of what projects you could carry out in the district. Could decide difference between want and need and was helpful to keep focus and direction and to ensure it covered needs of schools.

Like to have something web based that has log in and can use easily. Need to do something other than data on student improvement. Want to assess if we are going where students need to be. Students write letters to what they want, but write letters afterward to describe what they feel when project is over. Good qualitative data. This analysis takes time to analyze and characterize.

Loti Observer is potential tool. Is there another tool that can be used for a classroom walk through. Observer can be loaded on the iPod touch.

Is it customizable so there are a central group of questions that everyone would collect and others that would be school/project specific.