Presentation at Intel - Education - JP Sá Couto workshop on educational Planning Venue: London Marriot Kensington Hotel Date: 12 January 2012

1. Impact of ICT in Education
Oystein
Johannessen
Educa2on
Impact
Fellow
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2. Outline
• What do we mean by "impact"?
• What do we know about the effects of ICT?
• The Road(s) Ahead
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3. Approaches to Impact
• End point of intervention
• Impact and assessing impact is often related
to policy goals
• Quantifying versus assessing impact
• Axis: "Raising standards" vs "Assessing
Learning"
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4. Approaches to Impact
• Quantitative approach
• Causal relationship between ICT use and gains in national
tests through statistical analysis
• Hard to isolate ICT as one of many variables influencing
learning processes
• Qualitative approach
• Assessing impact via interviews and questionnaires among
key stakeholders
• Perceived versus real impact
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6. Some findings from
EUN Impact Study
• ICT impacts positively on educational performance in
primary schools, especially in the native language, less
in science, and not in mathematics (Machin, UK, 2006)
• ICT improves attainment levels of school children in
native language (above all), in science and in design
and technology, between ages 7 and 16, particularly in
primary schools.
• Pupils, parents and parents consider ICT has a positive
impact on pupils´ learning (Rambøll, 2006)
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7. OECD on Impact of
ICTs
• It is the quality of usage rather the amount of
usage that defines the impact of ICT
• PISA studies have shown correlations
between ICT familiarity at home and PISA
scores
• No clear correlation between in-school ICT
use and PISA score
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8. PISA
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9. EUN Netbook Study
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10. Acer-EUN Netbook
Study - about the study
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11. Acer-EUN Netbook
Study - findings
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12. Acer-EUN Netbook
Study - findings
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13. The Roads Ahead
• The Indicator Road
• The Assessment Road
• The Competency Road
• The Social Road
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14. Indicator Road
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15. Indicator Road
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16. Assessment Road
• Evidence shows that assessment is key to educational
practice and change
• Emerging research indicates that ICT in assessing
different competences are used in a narrow way
• The ACT21S Project are developing innovative
approaches to ICT and assessment
• Assessment of digital literacy can be a driver for change
of how ICT is used to assess key competences
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17. The Competency Road
• ICT as a lever for enhancing literacy, reading
skills and numeracy
• ICT and social skills
• ICT, creativity and entrepreneurship
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18. The Social Road
• Access
• Equity
• Quality
• Employability
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19. Summing up
• The impact agenda still has to be knowledge-
based.
• The scope of issues is wide. Need for a
plethora of approaches to topics and
methods.
• Quasi-experimental approaches involving
learners should be explored further.
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