Assessments

With so much new technology converging in the K-12 environment, it is quickly becoming too much for one person, or even an internal IT department, to handle. To review your school district's current state of technology we have developed a series of technology assessments that can be implemented quickly and affordably.

These IT assessments provide a simple audit for your district's readiness to upgrade equipment, to prepare for your next round of strategic planning, to introduce new technology into your current infrastructure, to address new challenges, such as online testing, or simply to assess your current spending and how you might be able to save funds.

We offer three assessments:

• State of Technology
• Bring Your Own Technology
• Online Learning

These assessments are in constant development with senior members of the Questeq team, serving as subject matter experts, and overseen by our assessment architect. In addition our assessment architect, Norton Gusky, oversees the assessments to make sure that they are aligned with current teaching and learning needs.

Norton Gusky is responsible for the design and development of Questeq’s new Technology Assessment Services group.   The assessments include tools to analyze the "State of Technology", “Online Testing Readiness” and the impact of "Bringing Your Own Technology."

Mr. Gusky brings a wealth of experience to the Technology Assessment Services group.  His educational career included 15 years as a classroom teacher working in grades pre K - 6 in West Virginia and Pittsburgh and over 20 years as a technology leader at the Fox Chapel Area School District and the Winchester-Thurston School.

In addition Mr. Gusky coordinates the programming for the Three Rivers Educational Technology Conference (TRETC), the premier K-20 learning conference in Western Pennsylvania held each November, and the Quality Classroom Consortium (QCC), a series of workshops that address the use of data to inform instruction, assessment, and curriculum.

Norton also serves as an adjunct faculty member at the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University. He teaches two courses - Planning for Innovation and Integrating Technology into Teaching and Learning.