No Child Left Behind

TechPOINT was specifically designed to help schools meet the reporting requirements for technology literacy and integration set forth in the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. In addition, TechPOINT Proficiency Assessments, TechPOINT Surveys, and TechPOINT Professional Development can be used as valid and reliable measures when applying for grant funds, including Enhancing Education Through Technology competitive grants.

The NCLB Act (Title II, Part D, Subpart 1) sets forth three goals for educational technology:

1. Use technology to improve the academic achievement of students in elementary and secondary schools.
2. Ensure that every student—regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, family income, geographic location, or disability—is technologically literate by the end of the eighth grade.
3. Encourage the effective integration of technology with teacher training and curriculum development to establish widely implemented, research-based best practices.

TechPOINT Proficiency Assessments, Surveys, and Professional Development were designed from the ground up to help your school or district meet these goals.

TechPOINT Proficiency Assessments:

• Provide objective assessments of technology literacy—aligned to the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for students, teachers, and administrators published by the International Society for Education (ISTE)—to help schools and districts meet NCLB technology literacy requirements for fifth through eighth-grade students.
• Enable teachers to get results for students in their class that indicate where students might be having trouble, helping them create technology-based assignments and curricula that meet students' needs.
• Customize reports to ensure that data are disaggregated to meet NCLB reporting needs, including the ability to disaggregate data by gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status as needed.
• Deliver assessments online, requiring only an Internet connection and updated Web browsers. The assessments are compliant with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, ensuring easy access for all students.

TechPOINT Surveys:

• Are based on the most recent scientifically valid research on school-level factors that impact student technology literacy, teacher technology integration, and administrator technology leadership.
• Provide valid and reliable data that can be used to track progress of how technology is being used in your school or district by students, teachers, and administrators.
• Establish baselines from which to make effective decisions about where to spend limited educational technology dollars and to see if those dollars are having the intended impact

TechPOINT Professional Development:

• Is aligned to the National Staff Development Council (NSDC) Standards of Staff Development and the ISTE National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers.
• Improves the capacity of teachers to effectively integrate technology to support and enhance teaching and learning.
• Helps ensure that all students are technologically literate by the end of the eighth grade.
• Improves student achievement across content areas through the integration of technology in elementary and secondary schools.