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Steppingstones of Technology Innovation for Students with Disabilities—Student Compass Online: Navigating to Success
CTE developed Student Compass, an easy-to-use, Web-based data collection tool for monitoring student progress to improve the learning and performance of students with disabilities in general education classes. Student Compass can be accessed via desktop or wireless handheld computer and is designed for use by:
- students as they discover ways to take charge of their learning.
- teachers as they seek to deliver quality instruction to diverse learners.
- administrators as they monitor student learning and performance within an individual class, and/or across a grade, department, or whole school.
- parents who need up-to-date information on their child’s academic and behavioral progress.
Student Compass has modules and interfaces for each user group, and features easy data entry, rapid disaggregation of results, and generation of easy-to-read reports and graphs for tracking various academic and non-academic performance areas. Once entered, student performance data is immediately accessible to teachers, school administrators, parents and students. Students can check their progress daily in areas such as reading, homework, goal-attainment, class preparedness, and attendance, and teachers can use the data to differentiate their instruction and to evaluate the effectiveness of the strategies they use in their classrooms. And by relieving the burden of traditional information management for teachers and administrators, Student Compass promotes responsive and data-based instructional decision-making. This project focused on meeting five basic objectives in the development process:
- continued accessibility/usability field testing.
- refinement of Student Compass and continued formative evaluation incorporating field-test findings.
- efficacy and feasibility studies during field-testing.
- further refinement of Student Compass and summative evaluation.
- dissemination of results.
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