Most Chicago public school students use technology infrequently and for a narrow range of low-level activities¶
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Evidence · 1 study · associationalr2·q2
Currency · newest study 2002 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2005: local conditions change quickly
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q2 i? Only 19 percent of students in grades 6 through 10 use technology intensively at school, while 17 percent never use it for the surveyed activities. → Holly M. Hart 2002
q2 i? A breakdown of tasks shows very little high-level work; most use is word processing and Internet research. → Holly M. Hart 2002
Evidence¶
Holly M. Hart 2002¶
Holly M. Hart, Elaine Allensworth, Douglas L. Lauen, Robert M. Gladden. (2002). Educational Technology: Availability and Use in Chicago's Public Schools. Consortium on Chicago School Research. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/educational-technology-its-availability-and-use-chicagos-public-schools
q2 · i? · associational · r2
Survey analysis of nearly 100,000 student and teacher responses in 434 Chicago public schools reports use levels: 19 percent intensive, 38 percent moderate, 25 percent limited, and "Another 17 percent of students say they never use technology at school" for the surveyed activities.
"Only 19 percent of students in grades 6 through 10 use technology intensively at school. These students analyze/ graph data or create presentations about once a week, as well as perform common tasks such as word processing or Internet research almost every day."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Only about half of CPS students use technology at least weekly for school, and 20 to 30 percent rarely or never do — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
- Teachers' access to and professional use of technology improved considerably from 2001 to 2003, but did not translate into proportionate increases in technology-rich student assignments — related
- About 70 percent of teachers use the internet weekly for lesson preparation, but only 45 to 50 percent use software in instruction or expect weekly student use — related
- Treatment classrooms used technology far more intensively than control classrooms, whose technology use remained supplemental — reports the opposite
- Control students rarely used the optional game, while treatment students logged in as expected — related
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Most Chicago public school students use technology infrequently and for a narrow range of low-level activities |
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Most Chicago public school students use technology infrequently and for a narrow range of low-level activities |
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