We have developed a system that provides schools and universities with the opportunity to provide an on-line version of each of the four Scales together with the capacity to deliver individual reports to students and accumulated reports to designated school and/or university personnel.
The site and eScales are available free of charge for researchers conducting formal research which intends to be published.
It is also free of charge for the use of CEDS-Primary in Grades 5 and 6 until we get enough data to generate robust norms
For general use in schools and/or universities, there is a set up and reporting fee involved to cover the cost of: the development and maintenance of the site and the capacity to provide detailed reports to students and staff involved.
The fee structure is:
Individuals: free – download the free print forms from the previous page
Small group up to 30: (eg a class group): $60.00
For secondary schools and colleges:
One Year level group: eg Grade 10 $90.00
Two Year level groups: eg Grade 9 & 10 $140.00
Three Year level groups: eg Grades 10, 11, 12 $190.00
Four Year level groups: eg Grades 7, 8, 11, 12 $230.00
Five Year level groups: eg Grade 8-12 $270.00
Six + Year level groups eg all Grades 5 -12 $300.00
For universities: The grouping could be U/G, P/G, Research or Preparatory and students identify themselves as at the beginning phase, middle phase or concluding phase of their study. Prices would be based on groups and group sizes in line with the prices for secondary schools and colleges.
If you wish to access the on-line eScales and the reporting system that accompanies them, please contact: Dr Col McCowan OAM PhD: email- col.mccowan@gmail.com
If we agree to proceed:
You will be provided with a unique URL for each school Year level (or university group) involved.
You can provide this URL to all the students in each Year level (or group) for a limited time – usually two weeks.
It takes an average of 8 minutes for each student to complete the scale. When each student submits their completed Scale, they will be provided with a detailed report that they can read and proceed with the option of printing off a copy of the report to show their teachers and/or parents.
You will be provided with a detailed report for girls, another for boys and another for the total number of students who participated in each Year level (or group) You will also get an Excel spreadsheet with the results for each student who participated in each Year level (or group).
Once you have a copy of the Excel file, the names of the students will be deleted from my records.
CAUTIONS / SUGGESTIONS
Some schools have policies which preclude staff from using a non-school person/company to collect data from students, where in this case, they are asked to place their name and grade on their report.
If this is the situation for your school, you could suggest the students use their student number in place of their name, or identify themselves for the sake of the report by just using only their first name and representing their surname with the relevant initial. eg Nicole K
and/or
You could provide school management with the following information about the security of the site and process:
• The site is a standalone site and not connected to any other sites and is managed by me personally with a strong sense of the need for security and ethics.
• The site runs under Standard Secure Connections (SSL/TLS) to ensure all data transmissions, especially those involving user logins, uploads and downloads, are protected with HTTPS by using an SSL/TLS Certificate. This encrypts data in transit and helps prevent interception.
• The Scales and student reports are secured and can only be accessed by providing generated cryptographically secure random token in the URL. Besides, the surveys cannot be accessed after the set end date.
• The login username and password are needed to access the reports pages. The passwords are stored encrypted in the backend database.
• The login username and password are changed to more complicated and not easy to guess ones, to provide better secure access to the web site.
• There is no reason for Cromach Careers to hold any student names, so as soon as the reports are provided back to the school/university, the student names are deleted
It is suggested that for the use of the e-Scales in schools, parents be informed on the process so that they have the opportunity to withdraw their child’s participation if necessary and to prepare them to expect to see a copy of their child’s individual student report. This process would also provide a great opportunity for parents to be immersed in the career education and development programs in the school.
It could also be an opportunity to inform all teachers of the process involving the eScales so they too can be connected to the career education and development of their students.