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Technology Use Assessment
The online needs assessment equips each teacher with an Individual Learning Plan™ (ILP). Each ILP generates a list of learning opportunities, Guides, and resources to assist the user in reaching his or her technology goals. Schools as clients receive customized charts and reports that facilitate the design of their professional development program. See our FAQs for more information.
Teachers
Are you not sure what you need to reach your technology
integration goals?
• Log in as a Guest to take a 25 minute assessment and receive your own individual learning plan.
• Share your ILP with your technology coordinator or principal.
• Receive—if your school signs up as a client—customized reports and charts that facilitate design of your professional development program.
• Use the information we help you develop to access some of the opportunities listed in your ILP.
Administrators and Technology Coordinators
Concerned how you will reach all of your teachers' technology
integration needs?
• Check out the assessment yourself as a Guest.
• Sign up as a client. Contact us by filling out our online form or call 800.633.2248.
• Pay per teacher cost plus setup costs depending on the number of teachers.
• Receive a School/District master login code for all users.
• Receive complete detailed instructions for each user to follow.
• Work closely with our programmers to monitor any problems.
• Review and revise the profile and summary, if needed.
• Generate an ILP for each user.
• Review needs to determine customized reports. Some examples of reports you receive as client:• proficiency levels of teachers for school, grade levels,or departments
• recommendations for mentors
• best times for professional development
• list of curriculum projects
• courses requested by which teachersCheck out a sample ILP and sample reports and charts, review testimonials about our assessment/planning process, then contact us to sign up with your own master login code.
- What is the Assessment?
- What makes My eCoach's Assessment unique in comparison to other assessments?
- How long does it take to complete the Assessment?
- Do I receive a new customized report each time a teacher updates her/his information?
- What types of charts or reports can we get as a client?
| Q | What is the Assessment? |
| A | We developed our own Technology Use Assessment tool that measures teachers proficiency and comfort level of technology teachers. It provides each user an individual learning plan (ILP) aligned to a list of opportunities, resources, and the ISTE National Technology Standards. Schools or districts can contract with us to receive customized reports and charts (see sample charts). As a client, we provide detailed instructions and monitor input to make sure your teachers will receive an individual learning plan they can use. Our Assessment has been tested for validity since 1998 and been proven successful (see testimonials).
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| Q | What makes My eCoach's Assessment unique in comparison to other assessments? |
| A | The Assessment developed by My eCoach assigns a unique code to each school or district. This secures that the information is relevant to the specific site. The teachers use the master login code to access the Assessment and to receive their individual learning plan. Guests can go in and do almost the same assessment, but data for guests in not secure or able to be compiled into reports for clients. The Assessment is rubric-based, and there are fewer fields to enter. The Assessment has received overwhelmingly positive feedback on ease of use. In addition, My eCoach can then compile the data for you and provide customized reports and charts that will help you plan the next phases of your Professional Development. Go to Assessment to learn more. Our assessment is in a rubric form so the user can see the different levels in easy-to-understand, non-threatening language. We also have information from the Stages of Concern imbedded in the Assessment to discern a teacher's comfort level and attitude about using technology. In compiling the data, my eCoach can determine who would be the right people to be your mentors. We don't always recommend who you would think, but we know intuitively who has the right people skills and curriculum background to make your program a success.
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| Q | How long does it take to complete the Assessment? |
| A | The Assessment takes approximately 20-25 minutes to complete. However, in situations where a staff participates in a presentation explaining how to take the Assessment and correctly enter the fields, the actual time to take the Assessment has been as short as 10 minutes. My eCoach can provide this service for clients along with written instructions for each user. Some of our clients have told us that they like that they can log in, start the Assessment, and come back later (if they remember their login and password) to finish. Now there are some cases where it takes longer because the teacher is new to using technology.
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| Q | Do I receive a new customized report each time a teacher updates her/his information? |
| A | Only if you request these reports as a client. Certain charts can automatically be generated at the site. For more customized versions, you will want to build this into your contract.
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| Q | What types of charts or reports can we get as a client? |
| A | Some examples include levels of teachers by numbers and percentages by report or pie or bar charts. We can detail how many are in each level by grade or subject areas in report, chart, or graph form, list types of curriculum projects happening in the school, determine who’s using what type of software, put together a chart on opportunities or challenges by percentages, and more considering the client’s needs. (See Sample Charts)
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