STNA+-+Needs+Assessment

Halifax County School District: Thank you for your interest in the School Technology Needs Assessment (STNA) survey. STNA is a web-based survey with preset questions that can be used to determine the collective needs of a school staff, related to the use of technology in education settings. It provides information to help school-level planners - administrators, technology and media specialists, and school or technology planning team members - make purchasing, resource allocation, or other decisions relating to technology. However, its most important use may be guiding building- and district-level decisions about professional development for educators, including those about content, timing, and type of opportunities provided. You can access more information about STNA at @http://www.serve.org/stna.aspx. I have set up your STNA survey to **open at 7:00 am on January 31st** and **close at 5:00 pm on February 3rd.** Just let me know if you need for the survey to remain open longer. **The link to your survey is: @https://uncg.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_bdNgLJBPIHhbZpq** It sounds like you have a good strategy for ensuring that teachers have access to take the STNA by issuing the survey during your staff development day. This is good because it important that everyone understands that STNA is a building-level needs assessment - it aggregates data to the school level, rather than reporting individuals' needs - and for this reason, it is critical to get very high response rates (like 80% of the staff working with students). Anything less than that and we can't certify the results as actually being representative of technology use in the building as a whole. I have attached the STNAchecklist.pdf, a document to help you as you plan to implement STNA - including suggestions from other schools who have used STNA, such as having staff complete the survey in the computer lab at the end of a staff meeting.

Congratulations on your 1:1 plan and good luck with the implementation. Please let me know if you have any additional questions regarding your STNA survey. Regards, Beth

// **Beth E. Thrift** //   Program Specialist     ** SERVE Center at UNCG **    5900 Summit Ave.   Suite 201   Browns Summit, NC 27214 (800) 755-3277 (336) 315-7434 (v) (336) 315-7457 (f) [|bthrift@serve.org]