NAACE EdTech Review Framework (ERF)

• NACCE is the National Association for Education Technology.
• NAACE is a community of teachers, school leaders, advisors, consultants and commercial partners working across all areas of UK education who share a vision for the developing role of technology in education.
• NAACE represent the UK education technology community in the schooling sector at a national and international level.

For more information visit the NAACE/ERF website. 

The NAACE EdTech Review Framework (ERF) is a powerful online tool for school improvement using Education Technology. Schools, teachers, pupils, and parents rely on technology and its effective management to advance education. The SRF helps schools maximise the adoption of technology, supporting several areas including:

• The impact education technology has in a school
• How technology is improving outcomes, engagement, and essential digital skills
• Availability of high quality professional digital learning resources
• Safe and secure use of technology assurance.

The EdIS Programme piloted the SRF (now known as ERF) with 21 schools across a range of sectors in Spring/Summer 2022 to explore and test the relevance, manageability, and appropriateness of the SRF tool for schools in Northern Ireland.

Schools that took part in this pilot phase were overwhelmingly positive about the value of the SRF.  The pilot schools reported the use of the SRF supported them on their journey to maximise their use of technology through developing and enhancing learning and teaching whilst providing a benchmark against which to assess progress. The pilot schools also reported the maturity model was instrumental in supporting them to reach their full potential in the implementation of technology across the curriculum. Through understanding where they are in their technology strategy, they are able to plan and record the next stages of progress.

Feedback from pilot school leaders:

• “Very easy to use. Great tool to help you identify areas of strength and those which need to be worked on.”
• “Fantastic tool for professional development and benchmarking for whole school improvement”
• “An overview of what excellent provision looks like. A way forward to develop ICT in our school.”
• “Realisation that we were good at using ed tech on an ad-hoc basis, with some fantastic examples of good practice but that much more planning required to get the best use out of ed tech across all of the elements in the framework.”