ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) Research and Evaluation

The Ministry of Education commissions a variety of research and evaluation around the impact of ICTs in education. Overall the Ministry's research and evaluation in ICT aims to:

1. Assess the impacts of Ministry ICT initiatives across the education sector to strengthen planning and implementation
2. Explore (e)learning and ICT practices that make a positive difference to learning
3. Support educators to make critical and reflective decisions about their use of ICT.

This page contains links to completed ICT research and evaluation projects, in-progress projects, and some national and international web sites relating to ICT educational research and evaluation.

Publications

The Ministry of Education has published a number of research reports on ICT, which are available from the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) publication home page.

e-Learning Research Papers

Containing papers and other publications of interest from various e-learning research and evaluation projects in New Zealand. The article "Creating digital age learners through school ICT projects: What can the Tech Angels project teach us?" is now available.

Current Projects

A list of current ICT projects is under production and will be published as soon as it is available.

National Sites of Interest

e-Learning Fellowship
The e-learning teacher fellowships programme was established in 2003. It reflects the New Zealand Ministry of Education's commitment to quality teaching, improving the professional capability of teachers, and increasing the use of effective e-learning strategies in schools and early childhood centres.

The 2006 e-Fellows and Minister of Education Hon Steve Maharey

 DigiOps
The Digital Opportunities projects are joint partnerships between schools, organisations involved in ICT and the Ministry of Education. The aim of the projects are to improve learning through the use of leading edge technologies.

Teaching and Learning Research Initiative
The Teaching and Learning Research Initiative aims to:

• build knowledge, through partnership research, about teaching and learning
• use this knowledge to create improved outcomes for learners
• create partnerships between practitioners and researchers to maximise the value and usefulness of research

Learning Centre Trust
The LCT has released reports on the state of ICT in New Zealand schools in 2003 and 2001, following on from earlier reports back to 1993.

20/20 Communications Trust
The 20/20 Communications Trust published the 2005 ICT in Schools Report which continues the biannual national survey series that started in 1993. The report tracks New Zealand schools' infrastructure, internet access and use, e-learning developments, and ICT professional development.

International Sites of Interest

PISA

The OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has released a report Are Students Ready for a Technology-Rich World? What PISA Studies Tell Us. The report has data from 41 countries including New Zealand that participated in PISA 2003. It looks at students' home and school access to ICT, the ways they use computers and their attitudes towards ICT. It also compares this data with achievement in reading and mathematics. Student ICT questions are being repeated in PISA 2006.

BECTA provides supports the UK Government's strategic direction for ICT in education through research focusing on the integration and impacts of ICTs in schools. The site contains a range of research that focus on teacher and school dimensions of ICT integration. http://www.becta.org.uk/index.cfm. The site also has information about doing practitioner research in ICT.

Naace is a UK professional association for advancing education through the appropriate use of information and communications technology. http://www.naace.org/index.asp

This UK organisation undertakes ICT research with an emphasis on future schooling and learning. The site contains a number of literature reviews and ICT project evaluation reports. http://www.nestafuturelab.org/index.htm

The Australian education portal EdNA online contains an ICT and School Education Research website with links to national and international research into ICT and teaching and learning, and research into ICT and change management in schools. http://ictresearch.edna.edu.au/ictresearch/go

Other ICT material

	More ICT information, including strategies, programmes, and events supporting and promoting the effective use of information and communication technologies in early childhood centres and schools can be found on the Ministry of Education's web site at: ICT Strategy for Early Childhood Education ICT in Schools
	The ICT Community on Te Kete Ipurangi provides information and materials relevant to ICT teaching and learning.

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