Jul 25th, 2008
Continuing my sniffing through the NAEP Data Explorer, today I “explored” differences in digitally-infused pedagogy by race. One of the items on the background questionnaire of the 8th grade NAEP in 2007 was as follows: “When you are doing math for school or homework, how often do you use these different types of computer programs?” [...]
Jul 24th, 2008
One of my posts from almost four months ago has been resurrected by comments from Tina K. and Amir. In that post, I suggested I’d do some more digging. So, I dug. Some background…these are NAEP data with tables and statistics generated by the NAEP Data Explorer. The NDE is an awesome (free!) tool for [...]
Mar 25th, 2008
This is what I get for playing around with the NAEP Data Explorer: So, the use percentages are a bit depressing. But, it gets worse…much worse… This is 4th graders, 2007, and, yes…the score for the group of students who report daily or almost daily use of computers at school for math is (statistically significantly) [...]
Mar 8th, 2008
OK, one more “finding” (see post below). The figure below points out a trend that shows up in all of the data I’m analyzing, and the trend that led me to the phrase “digital horserace.” You’ll notice that the states that are above the national average in student use of the Internet for math are [...]