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Gateways for Early Educators
2016
send e-mail messages?
18. Have you activated your Early Care and Education Workforce Registry account via e-mail?
24%
8%
25%
22%
19%
21%
25%
22%
Technology Training
CCALA developed a computer and technology training module based on the computer literacy assessment from the 2014-2015 program year and continued to assess those needs with this year’s computer literacy assessment. This year, CCALA conducted 8 computer and technology trainings hosted by 6 Resource and Referral agencies and 79 early care and education professionals participated. To gain an understanding regarding the effectiveness of the trainings, participants were asked to report on their basic computer and technology related skills before and after participating in the training. Prior to the training, participants were asked to respond “Yes” or “No” to indicate whether they had each skill before participating in the training. Participants were asked about the same skills after participating in the training. See the end of this report for a copy of the evaluation form.
At first glance, it appears that the participants already had many of the basic computer skills taught during the training before participating in the training with over 50% of participants indicating they had the each skill before the training as seen in Table 6. Given the disparity in skills by participant language evident in the computer literacy assessments, examining findings by language group was also important. Indeed, a more in depth analysis supported the findings from the analysis of the computer literacy assessments with participants whose primary language is Spanish self-reporting less computer and technology skills prior to taking the trainings than participants whose primary language is English. Furthermore, Spanish-speaking participants benefited most from the trainings showing a greater percent of change than English-speaking participants in each area trained. While there was an increase ranging between 20% and 59% in the percentage of Spanish-speaking participants who had each skill after participating in the trainings compared to before participating in the trainings, the increase for English-speaking participants ranged from 0% and 35%.
Table 6. Percent of Participants with Computer Skills Before and After Participating in the Training (Yellow indicates the 2 areas with the greatest change for each group.)
BOTH GROUPS
% Change
ENGLISH
% Change
SPANISH
% Change
Computer Skill
BEFORE
AFTER
BEFORE
AFTER
BEFORE
AFTER
I could turn on and shut down a computer
81%
90%
+9%
97%
95%
+2%
63%
86%
+23%
I could use a mouse or touchpad to point, click and double click.
74%
90%
+16%
95%
95%
+0%
51%
86%
+35%
I could use basic keyboard functions.
70%
87%
+17%
95%
95%
+0%
43%
77%
+34%
I could open and enter Word.
54%
75%
+21%
81%
86%
+5%
26%
63%
+37%
I knew how to get to the internet through a computer/technology.
61%
76%
+15%
84%
84%
+0%
37%
69%
+32%
I had my own personal email address.
78%
86%
+8%
89%
89%
+0%
66%
86%
+20%
I could write and send e- mail messages.
51%
68%
17%
78%
81%
+3%
23%
54%
+41%
I had activated my Early
25%
61%
+36%
24%
59%
+35%
26%
63%
+59%
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