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Assessing Teachers' Technology Skills
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Seminar Followup Information:
 The
Technology in My Life
survey from Jamie McKenzie, although older, provides a good
example of a personalized approach assessment of technology
skills.
- Evaluating
Professional Growth and Development
(http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/educatrs/profdevl/pd500.htm)
This is a good starting point for a discussion of the need for and
place of assessment. Includes numerous links to other resources.
- The Utah Technology Awareness
Project
(http://www.uen.org/UTAP/)
has created 4-level rubrics in
8 categories for teachers, technical staff, and administrators. You
can assess your skills online, then see the graph showing your strong
and weak points.
- Staff
Competencies from Winona, MN
(http://wms.luminet.net/wmstechnology/assessment/staff_tech_assessment.html)
Checklist of competencies from 1996-97. Staff self-rank.
- Technology
Self-Assessment Tool
(http://www.isd196.k12.mn.us/departments/technology/sd/sa/assess.html)
Includes courses offered to address each competency level.
- Teacher
rubric for Internet Skills
(http://www.ga.k12.pa.us/curtech/stucours/interubr.htm)
- Teacher
self-rating rubric on Microsoft Office
(http://www.ga.k12.pa.us/curtech/stucours/offrubr.htm)
- Austin
ISD (http://www.austin.isd.tenet.edu/insupport/grant.html) has
developed comprehensive teacher technology competencies, for which
there are application assessments. A thorough list.
- The Mankato
Survey (http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/surveydatabase.html)
is considered a standard in the field of teacher assessment for
technology. Download the Filemaker file, then follow the
instructions.
- Rubrics for beginning teacher Use
of Technology as a Tool
(http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/dougwri/Rubbeg.htm). Convert
this to a standard rubric scale and you are ready to gather data!
- Rubrics for internet
use by teachers.
(http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/dougwri/Rubint.htm)
- Rubrics for advanced teacher Use
of Technology in Integration
(http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/dougwri/Rubadv.htm). These
rubrics are free to schools as long as you cite Doug Johnson of the
Mankato Schools as the source.
- Assessment
rubrics (http://129.7.160.115/COURSE/INST_5931A/Rubric.html) for
an Internet Course from the University of Houston Clear Lake. These
provide good examples of different aspects of course
participation.
- National
Standards for Teachers in Technology Education
(http://www.iste.org/Standards/NCATE/index.html) from ISTE. Several
levels of standards are provided.
- The North
Carolina Technology Competencies for Educators
(http://www.state.nc.us/OFPS/hm/te/techcomp.htm) provides standards
on two levels. In addition, there are self-assessment instruments
that you can print.
- Educational
Technology:Media for Inquiry, Communication, Construction, and
Expression
(http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/facstaff/chip/taxonomy/) An
interesting approach to classifying educational technology, based on
Dewey's work.
- Learning
with Profile Tool
(http://www.ncrtec.org/capacity/profile/profile.htm)
Download this
and use it in the teacher assessment program. You can ask everyone to
do thier own or use it as a checklist. Measures the level of Engaged
Learning, as described by NCREL's Plugging
In. (http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/edtalk/toc.htm)
- Stages of Concern
Questionnaire Online (http://planet.rtec.org/cbam/)
You can take the SocQ online, then have it scored. It will produce
a chart showing your high and low concern areas. You can also sign up
to have it save and track your scores over a period of time. This is
based on the Concerns Based
Adoption Model. (http://www.isdc.org/CBAM.html)
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