[ecrea] new pub: Educational Research and Innovation: Are the New Millennium Learners Making the Grade?: Technology Use and Educational Performance in PISA 2006

>Educational Research and Innovation: Are the New 
>Millennium Learners Making the Grade?: 
>Technology Use and Educational Performance in PISA 2006
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>ISBN: 9789264076044
>Publication: 15/4/2010
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>Educational Research and Innovation:  Are the 
>New Millennium Learners Making the Grade?: 
>Technology Use and Educational Performance in PISA 2006
>OECD countries have undertaken significant 
>investments to enhance the role of technology in 
>education.  What are the results of these 
>investments? Is technology investment in 
>education fulfilling our expectations? PISA 2006 
>provides a wealth of comparative data to begin 
>answering these questions, including evidence on 
>the availability and use of technology and the 
>actual benefits accruing from it.
>One of the most striking findings of this study 
>is that the digital divide in education goes 
>beyond the issue of access to technology. A new 
>second form of digital divide has been 
>identified: the one existing between those who 
>have the right competencies to benefit from 
>computer use, and those who do not. These 
>competencies and skills are closely linked to 
>the economic, cultural and social capital of the student.
>This finding has important implications for 
>policy and practice. Governments should make an 
>effort to clearly convey the message that 
>computer use matters for the education of young 
>people and do their best to engage teachers and 
>schools in raising the frequency of computer use 
>to a level that becomes relevant. If schools and 
>teachers are really committed to the development 
>of 21st century competencies, such an increase 
>will happen naturally. And only in these 
>circumstances will clear correlations between 
>technology use and educational performance emerge.
>The Excel" spreadsheets used to create the 
>tables and charts in this book are available via 
>the StatLinks printed in this book.
>Executive summary
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>What is the relationship between technology use 
>and educational performance in science? The OECD 
>PIS A (Programme for International Student 
>Assessment) provides a source of evidence for 
>the analysis of this relationship. This report 
>presents the main findings and policy 
>implications of this analysis. This work was 
>carried out under the umbrella of CERI s New 
>Millennium Learners project. The work presented 
>here updates the findings of a previous report 
>(OECD, 2006) and seeks to go deeper into the 
>determinants of technology use, both in 
>frequency and in purpose, and into the impact on educational performance.
>This report presents results based on PISA 2006 
>and continues the work initiated at the OECD in 
>2005 which presented an initial picture of the 
>role of ICT in education based on PIS A 2003 
>data (OECD, 2006). It continues the 
>investigation of how equitable the access is to 
>computers across countries, how familiar 
>students are with ICT, how often and where they 
>use computers, for how long they have been using 
>them, how confident they feel, for which tasks 
>they use them and, finally, what the relation is 
>between these characteristics and students performance.
>Complete executive summary
>Table of contents
>Executive summary
>Introduction
>Chapter 1. The policy debate about technology in education
>Chapter 2. Students access to information and communication technologies
>Chapter 3. Students use of information and 
>communication technologies and the role of confidence
>Chapter 4. Students use of information and 
>communication technologies and performance in PISA 2006
>Chapter 5. Conclusions and policy recommendations
>Annex A. Supplementary tables
>Annex B. Methodological approach to categorising student profiles
>Annex C. Econometric model and methodological 
>approach to the analysis of the effects of technology on student performance
>Annex D. PISA 2006 ICT familiarity questionnaire
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>How to obtain this publication
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>New Millennium Learners Making the Grade?: 
>Technology Use and Educational Performance in 
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>Grade?: Technology Use and Educational 
>Performance in PISA 2006 - Multilingual Summary (English)
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>Best, Cathrine Tømte
>Senior Researcher, Nifu Step
>www.nifustep.no

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