The Star Chart Framework provides a Four-Tiered level approach (Early Tech, Developing Tech, Advanced Tech and Target Tech) to assessing school readiness with several indicators spanning over five categories; Educational Benefits, Hardware and Connectivity, Professional Development, Digital Content and Students Achievement and Assessment. In my opinion this framework can be utilized as a guide to measure ICT school readiness. However, in using this framework to assess my schools' readiness, it was observed that several of the indicators spanned across the varying levels of development which made it extremely difficult to determine with conclusiveness, the level of development my schools have accomplished. This I believe can be attributed to the framework's rigidity. In our context, this framework needs to be redesigned to enable some measure of flexibility with the aim of making the assessment more conclusive to its users.
On the other hand, the Mankato Scale Assessment Rubrics seems relevant to our context in assessing our staff levels of ICT skills in my opinion. The categories used coupled with the statements for the levels of each, will provide a definitive wealth of information that will be beneficial to the planning of training sessions for staff development. Some minor tweaking may be done to suit one's specific situation.
In summary, it is necessary to assess the state of ones school's conditions to get a true picture of the facilities, resources and stages of staff development available so as to inform the way forward with ICT integration as a school's overall strategy. This can be achieved by selecting and using a tool that is most relevant and appropriate to the school's culture.
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