Using Technology Wisely: The Keys to Success in Schools

Wenglinsky, a research manager at an educational publishing company, uses national data to measure technology's effect on student academic performance in mathematics, science, and reading. To uncover key implications for policy and practice, he links test scores of 40,000 students who took the National Assessment of Educational Progress with reports by their teachers of various aspects of technology use in their classrooms. He uses implications of the data to make suggestions for policymakers and practitioners. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR