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Monitoring and evaluation are two essential components of your technology planning efforts. Monitoring is the process of reviewing the implementation of the plan against your timelines and objectives. Evaluation is about value judgments – about whether or not you are making the progress you expect and whether or not the results obtained are the ones you want

The Technology Implementation Assessment Rubric (

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Use this rubric as a guide to assessing the progress of your technology plan. By annually re-evaluating your district or school's current technology status, stakeholders are able to assess the progress of your technology implementation effort.

The rubric is also a useful tool when you begin your technology planning efforts. Beginning with this assessment will allow the planning committee to identify early action items. Once a baseline has been established, use the rubric annually to re-identify school and district-wide technology implementation progress and to serve as a guide for planning next steps.

Technology Evaluation Planning Guide (

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Using feedback from your planning group, this guide will help you determine the most important elements to focus on as you develop our particular evaluation plan.

The Technology Plan Assessment Rubric (

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This rubric is aligned with the technology planning guidelines for ERate. Districts using this planning tool developed by the Monterey County Office of Education and WestEd RTEC will be able to assess the quality of the implementation of their planning efforts.

The Technology Implementation Assessment Template (

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Allows committee members to identify which concrete "Next Steps" will help to move a component of your district's or school's technology plan to the next level. Focus your "Next Step" actions on meeting the goals from the Technology Implementation Assessment Rubric. (

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Technology Training Matrix
This matrix has been provided to assist with planning and future training. It identifies the key skills required of a network support organization and the training that may be required to develop those skills.

Resources

	Assessment Resources Online
	This resource is a comprehensive list of topics related to assessment.

Assistive Technology Monitoring and Evaluation

Project MEET Evaluation Report 4 In general terms, the purpose of the research and evaluation effort is to assess the progress of the Project, then report back to stakeholders so that they may make adjustments to render the Project more effective. This process is called formative evaluation. In order to do this effectively, several preliminary steps are necessary. This site shows its research findings.

	Collaborative Evaluation Led by Local Educators
	This resource supports an interactive collaborative process within a school or district that engages a team of educators in assessing the effectiveness of a local program or initiative. The Guide presents five evaluation states: 1.Gathering Together and Planning 2. Preparing to Collect Data 3. Collecting Your Data 4. Making Sense of Your Findings 5. Making Improvements

Creating Your Evaluation Plan

From Apple Computers Technology Planning Guide, this evaluation material published by Apple Computer will assist you to develop an evaluation plan that answers these 3 questions:

What did we expect would change? What has actually changed?
Why did we introduce change? Has the change we've experienced met the needs we identified?
How has change affected the people involved? How do they view these changes?

	Evaluating the Impact of Technology: The Less Simple Answer
	From Now On The Educational Technology Journal, this article describes there are three major uses of technology in schools, and your approach to evaluating each use needs to be quite different.

	Evaluation Standards and Criteria for Technology
	From NCREL an article about how to plan an evaluation program considering how tto make the best uses of limited resources.

	Monitoring and Evaluating Your Technology Plan
	This presentation discuses the differences between monitoring and evaluating your technology plan. In addition, it describes some assessment tools and other resources that you can use to measure the impact of technology and evaluate its effects on student achievement.

	The Data Connection
	The National School Boards Foundation (NSBF) has posted a free toolkit for district leaders to use when helping school board members learn more about data driven decision making.