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[Pages:66]Educational Technology in U.S. Public Schools: Fall 2008

First Look

NCES 2010-034

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Educational Technology in U.S. Public Schools: Fall 2008

First Look APRIL 2010

Lucinda Gray Nina Thomas Laurie Lewis Westat Peter Tice Project Officer National Center for Education Statistics

NCES 2010?034

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

U.S. Department of Education Arne Duncan Secretary

Institute of Education Sciences John Q. Easton Director

National Center for Education Statistics Stuart Kerachsky Deputy Commissioner

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to recognize the respondents from public elementary and secondary schools who provided data on educational technology upon which the report is based. We also thank the sponsors from the Office of Educational Technology.

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Contents

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Acknowledgments ......................................................................................................................

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List of Tables ..............................................................................................................................

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Appendix A Tables ..................................................................................................................... vii

Appendix B Tables ...................................................................................................................... viii

First Look Summary ...................................................................................................................

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Introduction ........................................................................................................................

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Selected Findings ...............................................................................................................

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Tables .........................................................................................................................................

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Related Reports .......................................................................................................................... 19

Appendix A: Standard Error Tables .......................................................................................... A-1

Appendix B: Technical Notes ................................................................................................... B-1

Appendix C: Questionnaire ....................................................................................................... C-1

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List of Tables

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Percent of public schools that have instructional computers with various characteristics, ratio of students to instructional computers with Internet access, and ratio of instructional computers in classrooms to number of classrooms, by school characteristics: Fall 2008 .................................................................................

Percent of the computers in public schools that are used for instruction, percent of instructional computers with various characteristics, and percentage distribution of the mobility and location of instructional computers, by school characteristics: Fall 2008 .................................................................................................................................

Percent of public schools providing handheld computing devices (e.g., Palm OS, Windows CE, Pocket PC, BlackBerry) to administrators, teachers, or students, and among those schools, the mean number of handhelds for administrators, the ratio of full-time-equivalent (FTE) teachers to handhelds for teachers, and the ratio of students to handhelds for students, by school characteristics: Fall 2008 .........................

Percent of public schools providing various technology devices for instruction, and among those schools, the ratio of students to number of devices, by school characteristics: Fall 2008 .................................................................................................

Percentage distribution of public schools reporting the type of wireless network access in the school, and percent reporting the operating system(s) or platform(s) used on their instructional computers, by school characteristics: Fall 2008 ....................

Percent of public schools using their district network or Internet access to provide various opportunities and information for teaching and learning, by school characteristics: Fall 2008 .................................................................................

Percent of public schools with staff in the school full time whose only responsibility is technology support and/or technology integration into instruction, and percentage distribution of public schools reporting how long it takes to obtain various types of technology support, by school characteristics: Fall 2008 ................................................

Percentage distribution of public schools reporting the extent to which people in various roles help school staff integrate technology into instruction, by school characteristics: Fall 2008 .................................................................................................

Percentage distribution of public schools reporting the extent to which people in various roles provide technical support for educational technology in the school, by school characteristics: Fall 2008 ......................................................................................

Percentage distribution of public schools reporting agreement or disagreement with various statements on using educational technology in the instructional program in the school, by school characteristics: Fall 2008...............................................................

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