May 2004 — Exclusive Series: SBR
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State-Level Studies
West Virginia Department of Education
The Evaluation of West Virginia's Enhancing Education Through Technology Model School Project
$1.3 million over three years
Online: http://access.k12.wv.us
The project will assess the outcomes for teachers and students of West Virginia's ESEA Title II, Part D school-based teacher trainer initiative. The study will employ an experimental research design and make use of technology-based desktop meters and random interval data collection pop-up screens to document the use, time, topic and function budgets of teachers and students. These methods will yield objective, detailed information about classroom integration of technology as an outcome of professional development and the impact of technology integration practices on student performance on West Virginia's tests of standards-based content. In its third year, data from the study will be used to explore the extent to which evaluation data is used by state policy-makers to inform decisions.
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
A Study of the Effectiveness of Three Models of Implementing Educational Technology
$1.6 million over three years
Online: www.dpi.state.wi.us/
The Wisconsin project will (a) identify three promising models of educational technology use in state schools from existing data; (b) implement the models using the Title II, Part D competitive grant process; and (c) evaluate the effectiveness of the models on student achievement using quasi-experimental methods to assign experimental and control groups, student portfolios, student self-reports, and standards-based knowledge assessments to measure student achievement.
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