New Dashboard Measures Schools' Digital Learning Readiness
The Metiri
Group has introduced a new digital dashboard
tool designed to help K-12 schools assess the quality of their digital learning
programs.
The
program, known as the TRAx Digital Readiness
dashboard, is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) product to assess schools'
and districts' readiness and implementation in digital learning and
their
technology readiness for online assessment.
TRAx
has a two-part
focus: readiness and implementation. By collecting data from all
stakeholders
(students, parents, teachers, school administrators and IT
coordinators), TRAx
Digital Learning provides information on a school's digital learning
readiness
and its digital learning implementation.
Metiri
representatives said
digital readiness is a measure of a school's capacity to implement
digital
learning successfully. The TRAx tool evaluates a school's progress in
establishing a vision for digital learning and whether the tools are in
place
for successful implementation. Digital implementation is a measure of
the
deployment of digital learning in classrooms. Then it measures a
school's
ability to move planning into actions that achieve the vision for
digital
learning that has been articulated.
TRAx
Digital learning
provides a calculation of readiness and implementation progress across
five
areas:
- Curriculum,
instruction and assessment;
- Use
of time;
- Technology,
networks
and hardware;
- Data
and privacy; and
- Community
partnerships.
Calculations
result
in specific ratings to help schools understand their readiness and
their level
of implementation. Data collection is automated with interactive
consolidated
reports provided through a digital dashboard.
"For
years, we have
seen our partners in K-12 education use incomplete or irrelevant data
to inform
their digital learning progress," said Metiri Group Senior Associate
Jody
Britten. "As of today, these partners have the ability to track and
strategically plan for digital learning policies and practices using
data that
shows the complete picture of digital learning."
About the Author
Michael Hart is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer and the former executive editor of THE Journal.