Oct 17th, 2008
You couldn’t expect a guy with a doctorate in the politics of education to let the education portion of Wednesday night’s presidential debate go unchecked, could you? Apparently, both candidates support charter schools. No surprise from McCain; the Republican party tends to support most forms of school choice (that’s a gross generalization, but I’ll live [...]
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 [...]
Apr 11th, 2008
The full RFP has not been issued yet, but the feds put out a pre-solicitation notice for: “Conducting a Special Study in Technological Literacy for the 2012 National Assessment of Educational Progress.” In other words, as part of the 2012 administration of the NAEP, there will be an assessment of technological literacy (presumably of 4th, [...]
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) [...]