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 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

 GUIDE TO DATA TABLES

  PART 1. TEACHER-DIRECTED STUDENT USE OF COMPUTERS

 BASIC DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS

• Location of Computer Use
   
• Frequent Use by Students
   

 ACCESS TO CLASSROOM COMPUTERS

• Computer-Student Ratios in
  Classrooms
   
• Number of Classroom Computers Needed For  Frequent Use
   
• Computer Access in Labs and Media Centers versus Classrooms
   
• Which Promotes More Frequent Use: High Computer Density in Labs or Convenience of Classroom Location?

 COMPUTER PLATFORMS USED
BY STUDENTS

 PART II. EXTENT AND VARIETY OF SOFTWARE USED AND TEACHERS' OBJECTIVES FOR USE

 TYPES OF SOFTWARE USED

 SOFTWARE THAT TEACHERS JUDGE AS MOST VALUABLE FOR STUDENTS

 PATTERNS OF SOFTWARE USE

• A Typology of Teachers' Software Use
   
• Selected Elementary Level Clusters
   
• Middle Grades Diverse-Use Clusters
   
• High School High-Use Clusters
   
• Middle and High School "Specialized-Use" Clusters

 OBJECTIVES FOR COMPUTER USE

• Student Software Use by Teacher's Objectives for Computer Use

 STUDENT COMPUTER USE FOR SCHOOL WORK ON THEIR OWN TIME

 PART III. TEACHER COMPUTER EXPERTISE AND PROFESSIONAL USE

 TEACHER PROFESSIONAL USE OF SOFTWARE

 TEACHER SELF-REPORTED EXPERTISE WITH COMPUTERS

• Teacher Computer Expertise and Having a Computer at Home
   
• Teacher Computer Skill and Expertise and their Use of Computer
   
• Teacher Computer Skills and Expertise and their Objectives for Student Computer Use
   
• Major Software Use Clusters Associated with Expert Computer-Using Teachers and Teachers Holding Objectives Correlated with High Levels of Out-of-Class Student Computer Use
• Upper-Elementary Grades Clusters
   
• Middle Grades Clusters
   
• High School Clusters

 DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS

 APPENDIX A. SUPPLEMENTARY TABLES

APPENDIX B. Summary of study methodology

• PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS
   
• SELECTION OF TEACHERSs
   
• ATTAINED SAMPLE

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