| Educational Research On Interactive Whiteboards (PDF) |  |
| A collection of abstracts and references from research on the use of interactive whiteboards in teaching and learning. |  |
| Data Can Drive Development (PDF) | |
| An article about the importance of teacher professional development in the areas of data management, data analysis, and discussing data and evidence. | |
| Elementary School: Part Five (PDF) | |
| Teacher collaboration is a significant contributor to successful technology integration. Through collaboration, teachers support one another as they learn how the software works. But what is perhaps more important, working together provides opportunities to discuss how technology can be applied to the curriculum and how the material should be taught. By working together, teachers strengthen each other and provide more consistent experiences for students. | |
| Achieving With Data (PDF) | |
| This report is the second in a three-part research effort to investigate the prevalence of performance-driven practices in urban school districts across the country. The first study, "Anatomy of School System Improvement: Performance-Driven Practices in Urban School Districts," analyzed the state of performance-driven practices within 28 leading school districts. This second year of research has been conducted with the support of the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation and in partnership with the Center on Educational Governance at the University of Southern California. The study captures the details of data-driven instructional decision making at the classroom, school, and system levels in two urban school districts and two nonprofit charter management organizations. In doing so, the researchers document effective performance-driven practices, identify salient themes regarding the structure and culture of the systems, examine needs for improvement, and make recommendations for policy and practice. | |
| An Innovation Odyssey | |
| Looking for ideas to help you use technology to motivate and inspire? See how teachers around the world use technology in their classrooms to support student learning. | |
| Data Use: Data Primer | |
| The Data Primer is an instructional website designed to help educators become more comfortable with thinking about and using data for the purposes of instructional decision making. It has an overview and four modules. Each of the modules contain a tutorial, practice and extension section. The path of inquiry followed in each "Tutorial" section is applicable to all types of educational data. It works for all types and levels of testing and assessment. It can be used for analyzing attendance information, surveys of attitudes and perceptions, and programs. The questions apply equally well when analyzing data at the district, school, grade, classroom, or student level. | |
| Eastern Townships School Board Announces Exciting Positive Results From Laptop Initiative (PDF) | |
| Press release from Canadian School Board showing positive results in its third year of laptop program | |
| Policy Brief: Is A Laptop Initiative In Your Future? (PDF) | |
| A report that discusses the results of several evaluations of one to one initiatives. The report details the benefits of one to one initiatives and outlines key components to success. | |
| The Information Edge | |
| Educators at all levels are more interested than ever in tapping the potential of electronic data to accelerate their students' achievement. | |
| Breaking Down The Data (PDF) | |
| An article explaining the four key elements that support effective data-driven decision making in the classroom. | |
| High School Classroom: Part One (PDF) | |
| The ongoing assessment of student progress can provide a foundation for personalized instructional delivery. Technology tools can rapidly generate feedback from a variety of assessment types. Using technology-based diagnostic assessments, students and teachers can understand what a student already knows and help plan an instructional program to get him or her to the next level. Frequent formative assessments can allow students and teachers to monitor student progress and understand how close they are to their goals. Summative assessments allow students to demonstrate mastery and teachers to document student achievement. Technology-based assessments can also adapt to student understanding, becoming progressively more difficult as students learn more. | |