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Presentation Research into ICT and educational standards Peter Avis

Presentation Research into ICT and educational standards Peter Avis. Purpose. Overview of the Becta Primary Research Summary of Secondary - work in progress - needs debate. Summer 2000. Encouraging first results Schools with better ICT resources had higher grades

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Presentation Research into ICT and educational standards Peter Avis

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  1. Presentation Research into ICT and educational standardsPeter Avis

  2. Purpose • Overview of the Becta Primary Research • Summary of Secondary - work in progress - needs debate

  3. Summer 2000 • Encouraging first results • Schools with better ICT resources had higher grades • Not due to socio-economic factors

  4. Autumn 2000 • Correlation not causality • Minister asked Becta to provide further evidence for a link between ICT and standards

  5. Causal links School ICT Resource School type Subject usage How it is used? Pupil Standards

  6. Ofsted data KS2 schools inspected in 1998/9 (2110 schools) 736 Good and Very good ICT resources 153 Very Good ICT resources DfEE survey ICT in Schools 2000 (582 KS2 schools) Telephone survey 125 very good ICT Internet survey 315 teachers on-line Data-sets QCA Data KS2 pass rates for all schools

  7. Poor ICT resources (n=59) Very Good ICT resources (n=183) Data The average proportion of pupils attaining Level 4 or above within each sample of schools Government target for English Government target for maths Causal chain Schools with good ICT resources tended to have better achievement at Key Stage 2. ü Good ICT - Standards?

  8. Causal chain Schools with good ICT resources tended to have better achievement at Key Stage 2 and this is seen over two years. Continue over two years? ü ü Good ICT - Standards?

  9. Causal chain Schools with Good ICT resources tended to have better standards at Key Stage 2 than schools, even when benchmarked with schools of a similar type or management. Benchmark? ü Continue over two years? ü Good ICT - Standards? ü

  10. Causal chain Schools that use ICT to support a subject tended to have better achievement in that subject. KS2 English 85% 80% Link to subject usage? ü 75% Benchmark? ü 70% Continue over two years? ü 65% little use of ICT substantial use of Good ICT - Standards? ü ICT

  11. Causal chain Schools with good ICT resources and use them well tend to get better results than schools who have good ICT but do not use them well. KS2 Maths 'above national Link to how well used? standards' ü good ICT resources and very good ICT teaching good ICT resources and poor ICT teaching 0% 20% 40% 60% 80%

  12. Causal chain Schools that make good use of ICT to improve standards have good ICT teaching, ICT ethos, pupil access, skills and attitude to ICT. Link to other ICT variables? ü

  13. Causal chain Schools that make good use of ICT and have very good ICT resources reached the national targets in 1999. Schools of the future? ü

  14. Causal chain In very good ICT schools 86% of heads believed ICT important in raising standards, use it extensively in Maths, Science and English. Professional judgements? ü Schools of the future? ü

  15. Causal chain There is a set of wider research findings that support the patterns of effect shown in statistical and survey evidence. Research? ü Professional judgements? ü Schools of future? ü Link to other ICT variables? ü Link to how well used? ü Link to subject usage? ü Benchmark? ü Continue over two years? ü Good ICT - Standards? ü

  16. Secondary schools • Smaller numbers - 400 against 2000 primary • Higher attainment associated with very good ICT • Effects at Key Stage 3 and GCSE • Sustained over two years

  17. Secondary schools • Seems to be an ICT effect at Very Good levels but not at lower - a threshold?: • ICT resources PC ratio £ per pupil • Very Good = 1:7 £47 • Good = 1:9 £32 • Satis. = 1:10 £26 • Unsatis. = 1:12 £23 • Poor = 1:12 £23

  18. Benchmarking - usage • ICT difference still occurs even if socio-economic factors are factored out • Similar for pupil prior attainment • Also ICT effect bigger when used effectively

  19. Subject Usage - IT in Schools survey • For Maths and Science, where schools used, higher KS3 results • For English worse … but ….

  20. English Usage - IT in Schools survey • For English - differentiating schools with high ICT usage • Possibly for schools with low ICT - Word-processing = English usage

  21. GCSE and Subject Usage - IT in Schools survey • Where Schools used ICT extensively across curriculum GCSE results significantly better

  22. Pupil ICT skills - Ofsted data • Strongest link with ICT skills • Correlation 0.33 (twice as high as primary 0.17) • but based on Ofsted judgement Poor or unsatisfactory ICT attainment (n=109) Very Good ICT attainment (n=24

  23. Schools of Future • defined as those schools rated as 'good’ or better on: • - ICT resources • - Ethos • - Pupil attitudes to ICT • - Quality of ICT teaching • - ICT skills by pupils • There were 41 secondary schools, roughly 10% of the total.

  24. Schools of Future Significant positive socio-economic bias

  25. Ways forward Further work on: • School studies • 1999/2000 Inspections (framework) • Debate on interpretation, policy implications - Key Stage 3 pilot • Primary and Secondary comparisons • Using value added pupil data, how ICT is organised • …..

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