1. A Local Evaluation Process for IMPACT

2. Why Evaluate? To realize and maximize your investment in technology
What sort of “difference” has all of this technology made?
What expectations have we established for higher performance?
To continue your school or district technology planning effort
Evaluation is a key component of ongoing technology planning!
It’s a required part of the IMPACT planning process
Good question here is to ask if any of them have attempted to do this sort of thing...and why or why not?
Greg could talk about why FCPS decided to pursue evaluation. Maybe say a bit about the district’s background re. the audit, student competencies, etc.

3. IMPACT’s Local Evaluation Process

4. It All Starts With Goals
What do you want to see happen?
These are your goals
Achieving these goals requires a process
Are you performing the process steps?
All of this can be measured through a formative evaluation
Point here is to give them the basic layout/outline…REMIND THEM that we’ll make this specific to IMPACT later on today.

5. Basic Process Steps Create meaningful evaluation questions
Design relevant indicators
Organize those indicators in a performance rubric which can be used to measure progress and achievement
Collect data to score the rubrics
Create a report which applies the evaluation in a formative manner

6. An Example Goal and Question
The school district will allocate technology resources effectively throughout the district to enable teachers to meet the needs of today’s learners.
Evaluation Question:
How effectively has the school district allocated technology resources to enable teachers to meet the needs of today’s learners?

7. Developing Indicators
What is it that you want to measure?
Impact on teaching and learning
Change
Progress towards desired outcomes
You need indicators for progress to be measured
Make the point that this is basically in line with student authentic assessments.
If we’re using these sorts of assessments for student work, why not for the tools and processes which contribute to that work?

8. Indicators should reflect your district’s unique goals and aspirations
Rooted in your vision and goals
Indicators must be indicative of your unique environment...what constitutes success for you might not for someone else.

9. Rubric Tips Even number of levels Create from ideal to lesser
Yes, Yes But, No But, No
Be as descriptive as possible
Do not get excessively quantitative

11. Data Collection Data collection is driven by your indicators
Not the other way around
Data collection instruments need to tie to the specifics of your indicators/rubrics
As questions that seek out terms and conditions specified in the rubrics
Triangulate
Gather different types of data - surveys, focus groups, observations - that all support the same indicators

13. Conclusion
Evaluation is a key part of the IMPACT plan at both the local and state level
Not all evaluation is quantitative
Evaluation is not just a survey
You will create evaluation indictors that relate to each of the four IMPACT goals, or specifically, your district’s take on those goals

14. Conditions for Success
Developed understanding the technology planning process and its value
Awareness building
Establish the need for evaluation
Establish a process
Leadership
Commitment to reflective process
The evaluation will only be as good as it is taken seriously