MENTEP (Mentoring Technology-Enhanced Pedagogy)
The MENTEP project outputs provide an interesting insight for policymakers, teachers and anyone interested in the impact of online self-assessment on teachers' technology-enhanced teaching competence.
MENTEP was a cross-country project that tested how using a self-assessment tool could help teachers improve their digital teaching skills. Between March 2015 and May 2018, 7,391 teachers from 496 schools in 11 countries took part, making it the largest teacher training study of its kind in Europe.
MENTEP was based on a paradox. On the one hand, research shows (European Commission, 2013) that most teachers in Europe consider that using digital technology can impact positively on student outcomes. Yet, on the other hand, their own ICT use for teaching and learning and their confidence in their digital skills are low. Thus, there is a need for teachers to be able to develop further their pedagogical use of ICT and thereby translate it into a positive impact on students' learning. Additionally, there is a shortage of data on teachers' technology enhanced teaching (TET) competency and the MENTEP policy experimentation sought to contribute new data on this.
The project was therefore designed to support and broaden teachers' reflection on their pedagogical practices using ICT in their teaching, their teaching skills and their own learning by providing access to an online self-assessment tool (Technology Enhanced Teaching Self-Assessment Tool, TET-SAT) developed in the project and assess its impact.
National public authorities and 11,000 teachers in 11 partner countries participated in the project: Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain. European Schoolnet, coordinated the project and FBK-IRVAPP, the research institute for the evaluation of public policies in Italy, was responsible for the quantitative evaluation of the project.
The MENTEP self-assessment tool TET-SAT is freely accessible here.
All project research results and related resources are available here.
Find the research method and results and find here a short description of the self-assessment tool (TET-SAT).
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