Information and Communication Technologies Professional Development (ICTPD) School Clusters Programme
This page provides evaluations of the Information and Communication Technologies Professional Development (ICTPD) teacher professional development initiative. The ICTPD School Cluster programmes in New Zealand are aimed at increasing teachers’ ICT skills and pedagogical understandings of ICTs, at increasing the use of ICTs for professional and administrative tasks in schools, and at increasing the frequency and quality of the use of ICTs in schools to support effective classroom teaching and learning.
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This research report is submitted to the Ministry of Education as part of an ongoing evaluation of the Information and Communication Technologies Professional Development Cluster Programme (ICT PD), a teacher professional development initiative announced in the strategy documents Interactive Education: An Information and Communication Technologies Strategy for Schools (Ministry of Education, 1998) and Digital Horizons: Learning Through ICT: A Strategy for Schools (Ministry of Education, 2001, Revised 2003). This report on the 2004-2006 cohort of ICT PD cluster teachers supplements, and makes comparisons with, the evaluations of the first four ICT PD Cluster Programmes submitted to the Ministry in 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006.
This report is part of an ongoing evaluation of the Information and Communication Technologies Professional Development (ICTPD) initiative. It covers the 2003-2005 cohort of ICTPD clusters and makes comparisons with previous evaluations.
This report presents a comparison of the entry surveys for teachers entering into the National ICT Professional Development Clusters Programme over the period 1999-2006. Teachers from each of these cohorts completed a baseline questionnaire about their ICT skills, personal and classroom confidence and use of ICTs, types of student activities using ICTs, and uses of ICTs by teachers for planning, preparation and administration. Trends in these baseline comparisons are discussed in the report.
This research report is submitted to the Ministry of Education as part of an evaluation of the initiatives announced in the documents Interactive Education: An Information and Communication Technologies Strategy for Schools (Ministry of Education, 1998) and Digital Horizons: Learning Through ICT: A Strategy for Schools (Ministry of Education, 2001).
A range of action research or self-study projects was undertaken as part of the evaluation of the 2001-2003 ICTPD (Information and Communication Technologies Professional Development) school clusters programme. During these studies, teachers or cluster facilitators investigated their own 'best practice' in relation to some aspect of ICT use in the teaching and learning process, or some aspect of facilitating teacher professional development in that area. This Supplement to the main Report (entitled ICTPD Through Three Lenses) contains the full reports of 12 of the action researchers.