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- 1. The Nevada SchoolSpeedTest: Measuring Nevada K-12 Readiness For Online Learning and Assessment November 18, 2013 Spencer Watson, Outreach Coordinator
- 2. K12 Network Needs: Administration → Learning Potential Users on K-12 Networks Nationwide 60 55 Millions of Users 50 40 30 20 10 1.6 3.3 Administrators Teachers 0 Confidential EducationSuperHighway Students 2
- 3. Getting Speed to the Classroom Confidential EducationSuperHighway 3
- 4. Nevada SchoolSpeedTest Month Objectives: • Measure the Internet speed at every K-12 school in Nevada with the SchoolSpeedTest. • Gather data about real-world performance of school Internet and current readiness of K-12 networks for SBAC Assessments, 1:1 Device programs, and digital learning goals. Participation: 550 schools participated in SchoolSpeedTest – – – – Confidential 20 tests per site on average 35% of tests taken by teachers 23% of tests taken by students 23% of tests taken by technology staff EducationSuperHighway 4
- 5. Summary of Findings Online Assessment Readiness Nevada schools more ready for Online Assessment and Digital Learning than national average 100% 90% Assessment Readiness: 17% 36% 83% of NV Schools Ready for SBAC Assessment – – 39% for media-rich online assessment 44% ready for basic assessment Digital Learning Readiness: Percent of schools 80% 70% 60% 44% 50% 32% 40% 30% 20% 39% 32% 10% 28% of schools meet or exceed recommendations for robust digital learning (vs. 23% nationwide) 0% Nevada sample Average kbps / student: Ready (50+ kbps) National sample Basic (20-50 kbps) Not ready (<20 kbps) Confidential EducationSuperHighway 5
- 6. Nevada Schools: Online Assessment Readiness At current bandwidth availability, 39% of schools can support media-rich online assessment, while 17% of schools are not ready for any online assessment Nevada Schools Online Assessment Readiness (avg kbps/student) % of schools Not ready for online assessment 50% % of students Basic assessment ready 44% Media-rich assessment ready 47% 39% 40% 32% 30% 21% 20% 17% 10% 0% <20 kbps/student Confidential 20-50 kbps/student EducationSuperHighway 50+ kbps/student 6
- 7. Nevada Schools: Digital Learning Readiness Schools’ long-term connectivity goals should focus on developing capacity for digital learning; 28% of schools today are ready for technology-rich digital learning Nevada Schools Digital Learning Readiness (max kbps/student) % of schools Not ready % of students Basic connectivity 60% Emerging reliance Digital learning ready 54% 50% 39% 40% 34% 32% 28% 30% 20% 12% 10% 1% 0.2% 0% <10 kbps/student Confidential 10-50 kbps/student 50-100 kbps/student EducationSuperHighway 100+ kbps/student 7
- 8. In rural areas, lack of infrastructure prevents some schools from accessing high-speed Internet Bandwidth per Site by Locale 60 49 Mbps per site 50 40 39 37 35 30 20 12 10 0 Major City (n=64) Urban Cluster (n=202) Suburban Cluster (n=99) Remote Town (n=35) Remote Rural (n=57) Category Avg Note: Excludes 93 schools with 1000+ students (analyzed separately, ~163k students) Confidential EducationSuperHighway 8
- 9. Impact of lower connectivity in rural areas on students Rural Schools: Bandwidth per Student 60% 53% 49% Percent of schools 50% 40% 31% 30% 20% Greater proportion of rural schools are not ready 25% 19% 21% 10% 4% 0.3% 0% Not ready Basic (10-50) Remote Rural Emerging (50-100) Tech. rich (100+) Rest of NV Note: Excludes 93 schools with 1000+ students (analyzed separately, ~163k students) Confidential EducationSuperHighway 9
- 10. Furthermore, lower per-site connectivity increases likelihood of network congestion in rural schools 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Major City Urban Cluster Suburban Cluster Less Congestion Remote Town Remote Rural More Congestion N (less congestion) = 400 N (more congestion) = 22 N (excluded – fewer than 10 tests) = 128 Confidential EducationSuperHighway 10
- 11. However, significant variation in bandwidth per site across rural schools statewide Wells High School 66 Amargosa Middle School 39 Eureka Elementary School 35 Pershing County High School 33 Carlin High School Highest Mbps / site 32 21 schools (average) 17 Mc Dermitt High School 6 Mc Dermitt Elementary School 5 Median Mbps / site 2 21 schools (average) Lund High School 1 Lund Elementary School 1 Duckwater Middle School 0.8 Round Mountain High School 0.3 Lowest Mbps / site Ruby Valley Elementary… 0.03 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 Mbps / site Confidential EducationSuperHighway 11
- 12. In urban and suburban areas, concentration of very large schools reduces bandwidth availability per student Measured Bandwidth per Student 100+ kbps/student 100% 90% 50-100 kbps/student 10-50 kbps/student 1% 2% 17% 10% 15% 33% Percent of schools 80% 70% <10 kbps/student 16% 38% 52% 60% 91% 50% 40% 30% 64% 65% 48% 20% 38% 10% 2% 0% Small (<250 students) Medium (250-400 students) Large (400-650 students) Very Large (650-1000 students) 9% Mega (1000+ students) School Size (number of students) Confidential EducationSuperHighway 12
- 13. For More Information Thank you, Nevada. Questions or More Information: Spencer Watson, Outreach Coordinator spencer@EducationSuperHighway.org EducationSuperHighway: www.EducationSuperHighway.org SchoolSpeedTest: www.SchoolSpeedTest.org Confidential
Editor's Notes
- When schools began to adopt the Internet, it was first used in the front office for administration and staff management. Then it moved to the teachers desk for grades and student management, with some student use. This totals about 5M users – and if the Internet went down, you were inconvenienced, but submitted grades later.In order to move to the students desk, and implement 1:1 and online assessment goals, we have to add 55M users – 11x more. While best efforts worked for schools before, now Internet infrastructure is mission critical for classrooms, because if the Internet goes down instruction stops. To meet increased demand and the growing BW needs of todays cloud and streaming tools, we need to re-evaluate our networking strategies to be fast: from top to bottom in order to effectively deliver content to the classroom,
- In order to effectively implement digital learning and assessment in the school you need three things:High Speed Internet to the district office or network hubA fiber or high-speed WAN capable of distributing BW to the schoolEnough network hardware and WiFi access points for students and teachers to connect to, and with enough capacity for speed.Transition: In order to see what speeds are available in Nevada’s classroom’s today, we worked with the NDOE to launch the NV SST.
- The NV SST Month in October created a statewide database of how much bandwidth is available in NV schools. This apples-to-apples comparison will help districts and NDOE make data driven decisions about readiness for 1:1 device programs, digital learning, and assessment. 550 schools participated (75% of NV schools). 458 schools took 7+ tests, helping us get a picture of available bandwidth at different times of day and on different days of week.
- From the results of the NV SST we learned that NV is more ready for Online Assessment and Digital Learning goals than the national average. 83% of schools meet recommendations for SBAC assessments, compared to 64% nationwide. And 28% of NV schools meet or exceed bandwidth recommendations for digital learning, compared to 23% nationwide. Transition: Looking at Nevada’s readiness for SBAC assessment more closely…
- We see that 39% of NV schools are ready for SBAC’s media rich assessment. 44% are ready for the basic assessment. Only 17% of schools do not meet bandwidth needs at all, but that still represents nearly a third of students. This readiness estimate is based on SBACs recommendations that schools have 50 kbps/student for media-enriched testing, and 10-20 kbps/student for basic assessment.Transition: In addition to readiness for SBAC assessments we also looked at NV’s readiness for digital learning in the classroom.
- Using the per-user bandwidth recommendations that the State Education Technology Directors Association set down in their research paper The Broadband Imperative, we broke down Nevada schools readiness for digital learning into three categories:28% of NV schools meet today’s bandwidth recommendations for technology rich learning, for full 1:1 device programs and blended learning39% of NV schools meet recommendations for partial 1:1 programs and increased instructional use of online content.32% (which is also 54% of students) meets bandwidth needs for basic web use for research and mostly rotational lab useTransition: While looking at the data from across the state, we also discovered some interesting trends I’d like to share with you.
- As you might expect, many remote rural schools are challenged with acquiring high-speed connections
- What you may not expect is that despite having smaller connections, because they also fewer students on the network, 53% of rural schools are technology rich, a greater proportion of schools to the NV average. Of course there are also a much greater proportion of rural schools who are struggling and do not meet BW needs for implementing any online learning.
- Where low connectivity is impacting them more than in per-student bandwidth is in congestion. Rural sites are more likely to suffer times when the Internet is slower than it should be than their more rural peers.
- This is because the median connection size for a rural school is 5-6 Mbps. This means that for many rural schools, having more than one or two users downloading content can use up the entire bandwidth. As you can see at the top of this chart, though there are some rural schools have been successful in getting larger connections.
- In contrast, urban schools have a much more competitive environment for connectivity – and much larger connections. But because of their much larger populations of users, larger schools also have much lower per student bandwidth.Most are still ready for SBAC assessment, but many lager schools do not meet per-student bandwidth recommendations for robust digital learning.Currently, many large schools are currently able to balance their use against their capacity, but as instructional use of programs like the ones being spoken about today, it is likely that we will have to continue growing large school’s per-student bandwidth so every student and teacher can use online tools for todays mission critical instruction needs.
- Thanks for letting me share with you some of our results. If you have any questions about the NV SST, about us, or our programs, I’m more than happy to answer any questions. Also feel free to email me at spencer@esh..