The CEO Forum on Education and Technology is a partnership between business and education leaders who are committed to assessing and monitoring progress toward integrating technology in America's schools.

The CEO Forum has developed two School Technology & Readiness (STaR) Charts, one for the K-12 community and one for colleges of education. The StaR Charts are designed to serve as a benchmark against which a K-12 school or a college of education can assess and track its own progress and chart a new course to better integrate technology into the educational process. Both online surveys contain a series of questions that, when completed, provide feedback on the institution's level of readiness in using technology.

The CEO Forum StaR Charts provide an institutional assessment to assist in guiding the integration of technology into the educational process. You will want to visit the Teacher Universe assessment system to see a demonstration of the Technology Integration Assessment System that objectively assesses the individual K-12 teacher or college of education professor. The reports from the Teacher Universe assessment provide the information that is needed to manage and optimize technology staff development programs.

The Milken Family Foundation's education technology report, Technology in American Schools: Seven Dimensions for Gauging Progress, provides a framework of change parameters and progress indicators that identify the essential conditions necessary for schools to bring technology enriched learning opportunities to students. This planning tool is comprised of seven interdependent dimensions - learners, learning environment, professional competency, system capacity, community connections, technology capacity, and accountability - that encourage asking the right questions and measuring the right indicators. By using this framework, schools can identify the essential conditions related to the value technology can bring to student learning, analyze how their school or district is progressing through each dimension, communicate that progress back to the school community, and progress to the next step.

The South Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium (SCRTEC) provides at no cost an online collaboration tool called Profiler. This tool allows teachers and students to collaborate, to cooperate, and to share expertise on a topic they choose. You may build your own survey for specific class projects that encourage student/teacher collaboration based on knowledge and skill levels indicated from the survey results, or you may choose an existing survey from the Survey Library.

The driving force behind SCRTEC's development of Profiler was the need to come up with better models for providing technical assistance and professional development opportunities to K-12 educators. Through this survey process that identifies strengths and weaknesses, Profiler presents a visual representation of the knowledge on a specific subject or topic that exists within the classroom, school, or district.

As a survey instrument that can be tailored to any area or subject, Profiler begins building a community of learners within a school setting.