The Alberta Teachers’ Association

Do digital reporting and assessment tools affect your professional practice?

The Alberta Teachers’ Association, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Alberta, is conducting a provincial research survey on how digital reporting and digital assessment tools affect the work of teachers and principals, student learning and overall assessment practices.

The survey, which should take between 15 and 20 minutes to complete, is voluntary, and participants are free to skip questions. The study can be accessed at the following web address: www.digreporting.com. Please share this survey web address with your teaching colleagues. The survey will be accessible online until the end of December 2013.

All responses will be kept confidential, and only aggregate data will be reported. No data from open-ended questions that could identify individual respondents will be used without permission. Evaluative researchers from Evaluation & Research Services (ERS) at the Faculty of Extension will analyze the data and provide a report to the ATA in the spring of 2014.

The second phase of the study will involve focus groups during the winter of 2014. Survey respondents interested in participating in a focus group can enrol by following the instructions at the end of the survey.

Teacher and principal participation in this Alberta survey is important for the profession; this survey will build on three previous studies on this topic undertaken by the ATA over the last five years.

If you have any questions about this survey, please contact Phil McRae, ATA executive staff officer, Government. Telephone: 780-447-9496 (Edmonton and area) or 1-800-232-7208 (toll free in Alberta); e-mail: philip.mcrae@ata.ab.ca.