FRIT 7232

Technology Assessment Plan

Millicent Bess-Frazier
Catherine Ball
Audra Youngblood
Adrian Gibson

Annotated List of Technology Plan Resources

Title of Resource

Reference for the Resource

Paragraph Description

District Technology
Plan Rubric

http://ed.fnal.gov/lincon/staff_rubric.s
html

This rubric helps create an example for

the learner. Seeing exactly the type of
criteria a rubric needs is helpful to
generate one on your own.

Technology Plan
Evaluation

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/htm
l/EDU0240a.html

This rubric is also another great example

of how to create a rubric. I like this one
specifically because it is wanting the
evaluator to determine how well the
information was executed on different
technology plans.

Rubrics for
Assessments

http://edtechteacher.org/assessment/

This assessment link is great to

understand the why behind rubrics.

Technology Planning

http://www.usac.org/sl/applicants/ste
p01/

How to create a technology plan; gives

the steps needed to develop an effective
plan

State Technology
Planning Rubric

http://naepdc.org/Word%20Document
s/STATE%20TECHN%20PLANNING%2
0ANALYSIS%20RUBRIC.doc

This resource shows how technology

enhances the curriculum and the
potential of it's usage.

Developing Tech plans

http://dese.mo.gov/quality-schools/ed
ucation-technology/six-step-process-cr
eating-technology-plan

This site offers steps in creating a tech

plan

Understanding Tech
Plan Purpose

http://www.scholastic.com/browse/art
icle.jsp?id=52

This website provides some clarity in the

purpose of the tech plan.

Developing Effective
Technology Plans

www.nctp.com/html/john_see.cfm

This is great to use in order to create

effective technology plans

Developing a School
Technology Plan

http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers
/educational_technology/tech_plan/

This is a tool used to develop a plan for a

school technology department. Great
tool!

Cultivating a Tech
Integration Plan: 5
Simple Steps

https://edtechdigest.wordpress.com/2
011/08/25/cultivating-a-tech-integrati
on-plan-5-simple-steps/

Provides detailed steps in creating

technology plans

Roanoke County
Public Schools

http://www.rcs.k12.va.us/files/_FdFC
W_/5b1ef61a6c6a0b0f3745a49013852
ec4/techplan14-16.pdf

This is a school technology plan for

Roanoke County Public Schools in
Roanoke, VA. This school district is
ranked first (School district with 12,000
or more students) by the Center for
Digital Education for its use of

technology. This is an example of a great

technology plan.
Article: Technology
planning in schools:
An integrated
research-based model

Vanderlinde, R., & van Braak, J. (2013).

Technology planning in schools: An
integrated research-based model.
British Journal Of Educational
Technology, 44(1), E14-E17.
doi:10.1111/j.1467-8535.2012.01321.x

The following article, published in the

British Journal of Educational
Technology, a research based model is
provided for integrating technology into
education.

Task Two Rubric

Elements

Needs Improvement
Goals

Professional
Development

Telecommunication
s Assessment
(services, hardware,
software)

Accessibility of
technology
resources

Budget

Ongoing evaluation

Average

Excellent

Plan does not share any

goals with the reader.

The plan shares goals

but with mediocre detail

The plan shares specific goals

with detailed information
about each goal.

The plan shares little to no

professional development
strategies or goals with the
learner.

The plan shares

professional
development strategies,
but does not have
adequate information for
the reader.

The plan shares excellent

professional development
strategies based on the
requirements from the State
and includes information for
each strategy.

The plan provides little or

no requirements for
services, hardware, and
software.

The plan provides

adequate requirements
for services, hardware,
and software necessary
to support technology
usage.

The plan provides clear and

comprehensive requirements
for services, hardware, and
software necessary to
support technology usage.

Technology plan does little

to address accessibility or
does not address
accessibility at all.

Accessibility is address
in the plan but is not
clear or is lacking detail.

The plan outlines a clear and

comprehensive approach to
providing assistive
technology to students with
disabilities.

The technology plan does

not contain a budget

Some budget
information was given,
but exact numbers or
where the money will be
used was left out

The plan contains a funding

amount for each department
and each strategy

Provides no plans for

ongoing plan evaluation.

Plans provides vague

processes for ongoing
evaluation.

The plans provides a

complete and comprehensive
process to evaluate
progression of the technology
program.

Technology Planning Task 3

Technology Plan Evaluated:
Glynn County Schools, Georgia
http://flashmedia.glynn.k12.ga.us/webpages/amartin/files/gcss_technology_plan_2012.pdf

Topic
Goals

Recommendations for Improvement

o
o

Professional
development

Provides 6 different goals

Plan lists each goal individually in a table, listing the strategies, benchmark,
evaluation, funding source/ estimated amount, person responsible for each goal.
Sometimes providing more than one strategy, benchmark, evaluation, and
funding source for each goal.
Goals are clearly stated and gives exactly how the goal will be implemented, how
they will know the goal is being reached, what is funding the goal, and who is
implementing the goal.
Plan shows that teachers will have 10+ hours of PD for new technology. Specify
the time in which teachers have to do their mandatory hours. Is it yearly?
Have a list of all professional development opportunities teachers will have
available to them

An assessment of
telecommunication
services, hardware,
software, and other
services needed

Accessibility of
technology
resources
(Americans with
Disabilities Act)

Plan states that 100% of students technology needs will be met according to
their IEP but does little to address the overarching accessibility needs of all
students.

Budget

Although budget information was given, very little exact amounts were given. It
could be more helpful to provide the exact information. Only the funding
sources were listed in most cases.

Ongoing evaluation

One of Glynn Countys goals was to monitor the use of the technology in the long
term and they provided several ways or formats in which to accomplish this
task.

Glynn county schools credits themselves with over 5000 computers throughout
their 20 schools and academies.
Plan admits however that the computers are not adequate for 21st century
learning and in need of an upgrade.
It was decided that fiber optics be installed to meet the bandwidth demands of
the system.

Technology Plan Rubric

Elements

Needs Improvement

Average

Excellent

Plan does not share

any goals with the
reader.

The plan shares goals

but with mediocre detail

The plan shares specific goals

with detailed information
about each goal.

The plan shares little

to no professional
development
strategies or goals
with the learner.

The plan shares

professional
development strategies,
but does not have
adequate information for
the reader.

The plan shares excellent

professional development
strategies based on the
requirements from the State
and includes information for
each strategy.

Telecommunications
Assessment (services,
hardware, software)

The plan provides

little or no
requirements for
services, hardware,
and software.

The plan provides

adequate requirements
for services, hardware,
and software necessary
to support technology
usage.

The plan provides clear and

comprehensive requirements
for services, hardware, and
software necessary to
support technology usage.

Accessibility of
technology resources

Technology plan does

little to address
accessibility or does
not address
accessibility at all.

Accessibility is address
in the plan but is not
clear or is lacking detail.

The plan outlines a clear and

comprehensive approach to
providing assistive
technology to students with
disabilities.

The technology plan

does not contain a
budget

Some budget
information was given,
but exact numbers or
where the money will be
used was left out

The plan contains a funding

amount for each department
and each strategy

Provides no plans for

ongoing plan
evaluation.

Plans provides vague

processes for ongoing
evaluation.

The plans provides a

complete and comprehensive
process to evaluate
progression of the technology
program.

Goals

Professional
Development

Budget

Ongoing evaluation

**Yellow cells indicate the score that was given for the specific topic