Does Maine's Middle School Laptop Program Improve Learning? A Review of Evidence to Date. Occasional Brief

Autor/in	Silvernail, David L.
Institution	University of Southern Maine, Center for Education Policy, Applied Research, and Evaluation
Titel	Does Maine's Middle School Laptop Program Improve Learning? A Review of Evidence to Date. Occasional Brief
Quelle	(2005), (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Middle Schools; Standardized Tests; Laptop Computers; Computer Uses in Education; Access to Computers; Program Effectiveness; Educational Technology; Computer Literacy; Student Behavior; Achievement Gains; Learning Strategies; Maine + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Middle school; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Standadised tests; Standardisierter Test; Laptop computer; Laptop; Computer; Digitalrechner; Computernutzung; Unterrichtsmedien; Computerkenntnisse; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Achievement gain; Leistungssteigerung; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie
Abstract	This brief describes how Maine's introduction of its ubiquitous 1-to-1 laptop program has been beneficial to learning, if one looks in the right places. There is growing positive evidence from teachers, parents, classroom assignments and tests, and even in one case, on a standardized test, all pointing toward a similar conclusion. Students are learning more, better, and quicker with the laptops. The collection of additional evidence needs to continue in order to determine how widespread the impacts are for learning, and to determine the accumulative effects of this new level of learning on high school student performances. But these "pointer readings" are very promising, and bode well for the future achievement of Maine's middle school students. (Contains 4 tables.) (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Center for Education Policy, Applied Research, and Evaluation. University of Southern Maine, 37 College Avenue, Gorham, ME 04038. Tel: 888-800-5044; Tel: 207-780-5044; Fax: 207-228-8143; e-mail: cepare@usm.maine.edu; Web site: http://www.cepare.usm.maine.edu
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10