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West Virginia Story: Achievement Gains from a Statewide Comprehensive Instructional Technology Program 1999
What impact does technology have on learning?
by Dale Mann, Ph.D., Charol Shakeshaft, Ph.D., Jonathan Becker, J.D., Robert Kottkamp, Ph.D.
3/10/99 |
This is the fundamental question driving the research efforts of the Milken Exchange. West Virginia’s technology program – nearly a decade old – provides a good case study of a solid technology program and the impact it has on standardized test scores.
In 1990, the state of West Virginia implemented its Basic Skills/Computer Education program. This study – a collaborative investigation by the West Virginia Department of Education, the Milken Exchange on Education Technology, and Interactive Incorporated – found that the program has had a measurable positive impact on learning. West Virginia has seen across-the-board increases in statewide assessment scores in all basic skill areas, and students’ NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) scores have risen. The study also attributes eleven percent of West Virginia’s increase in mathematics and language arts scores to the computer interventions.
This 51-page report released in 1999 is a collaboration of the West Virginia Department of Education and the Milken Exchange on Education Technology.
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