Profiling Educational Technology Integration (PETI)
SETDA/Metiri Resources for Assessing Readiness & Use

Introductory Pages

How might states, districts, schools, and researchers use these tools?

SETDA anticipates that different stakeholders will use this suite of tools in different ways.

• States, districts, or researchers with sophisticated profiling tools already in place may want to analyze that toolset in light of SETDA's new resources, updating where necessary. [NOTE: States should consider "sets of questions" aligned to indicators in the SETDA framework.]
  
• States, districts, or researchers currently using surveys only to determine their school districts' technology readiness may want to a new element--site visitation data. Although such visits are not required for valid and reliable profiles, they do seem to increase the credibility of resultant reports to policy makers.
  
• States, districts, or researchers currently using hardware/software inventories only may want to continue collecting such data, adding the SETDA/Metiri surveys and/or site visitations to get more complete baselines and trend patterns on their school districts' technology readiness over time.
  
• States, districts, or researchers currently not collecting data state wide or school system wide may want to adopt the SETDA/Metiri tools, using only the three surveys, or a combination of the surveys and the site visitation protocols.