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Educators' Advantage

The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act has established improved student achievement as the top priority for technologically integration in schools, with the goal of enabling students to become technology literate by the end of the eighth grade. Schools and districts have more technology resources and infrastructure in place than ever before. Yet research consistently reveals that too many educators lack the knowledge or support required to integrate technology in ways that contribute to student achievement. Furthering the commitment to student achievement and technology literacy, NCLB also calls for integrating technology into teacher professional development and curriculum development with research-based best practices. Schools need research-based guidelines and resources to help them plan, implement, and evaluate their technology investments in ways that help maximize the use of technology that is already present and offer the greatest impact with respect to the return on investment and to student achievement. Graphic depicting the TechPOINT process of assessments, surveys and professional development. The TechPOINT suite of products ensures that the schools will have the right data to assist in choosing the right resources and tracking the effectiveness of those resources over time.

TechPOINT has been designed with the many different user groups in mind. Listed below are several roles and their capabilities.

Role Capabilities
Project Managers

Maintain complete control over the project, including:

  • Ability to assign up to five levels of permissions: who can see what, when.
  • Ability to change project parameters as needed.
  • Online, secure access.
  • Easy access to a Learning Point Associates customer service representative
  • Access to Learning Point Associates staff for survey and assessment design for custom needs.
  • Ability to define user groups of teachers and administrators as well as reporting viewing privileges.
Administrators
  • Create customizable reports that allow for aggregation across a school, district, region, or state.
  • Compare results of districts with multiple buildings.
  • Create customizable reports that allow for disaggregating by various demographic categories, including gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.
  • Develop a baseline for judging the return on investment of technology-related.
  • Match teachers to appropriate professional development, helping teachers get the most out of their professional development experience and helping the school get the most out of its professional development budget.
Teachers
  • Get reports on individual students.
  • Learn the technology proficiency level of each student.
  • See results that are mapped back to the ISTE NETS and that highlight areas the student may be having trouble.
  • Through the TechPOINT Assessment for Teachers, see where they are in relation to the NETS•T and where they may need improvement.
  • Enroll in professional development that is targeted to their needs, not a "one size fits all" solution.
Students
  • Get instant results from their test that they can print out and keep.
  • Learn where they may be having trouble in relation to the NETS standards.