Opeka and ropeka, the self-assessing services for teachers and principals

Abstract

Digitalization has strongly arrived to school communities. Teachers and principals are the key players on changing the school culture, so it is important to find out their views on the school’s digital ecosystem. For getting a joint picture on the matter, self-assessment tools Opeka and Ropeka have been developed. Opeka has been in use five years now and Ropeka for principals has been launched in the beginning of year 2017. To make the analysis of school’s digital ecosystem more accurate, we have put at least one question from Opeka into Ropeka’s every theme section. Doing this we can connect the views of these two respondent groups and get richer point of view to the phenome in hand. How well are teachers and principals prepared to the digital environment change at schools? How do they assess themselves and how do they experience the changing modus operandi with, for example, digital books and tests as well as new teaching practices? In our poster, we will introduce the tools and show the first results from both of the key respondent groups.