TABLE 2: CORRELATIONS BETWEEN SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENTS AND FREQUENCY OF TEACHER ASSIGNING COMPUTER DURING CLASS, BY SUBJECT AND LEVEL OF TEACHER

 

 Estimated Technology Investment
 over 5-years

Allocation Among Types of Investment

 

 TOTAL Investment

 HARDWARE (inventory)

 SOFTWARE (inventory x % of comps. runs on)

Support & Training time
relative to hardware/soft-
ware inventory

Secondary English Teachers

.13

.14

.20

.10

Secondary Mathematics Teachers

.22

.20

.38

.33

Secondary Science Teachers

.06

.03

.16

.14

Secondary Social Studies Teachers

.05

.07

.01

-.04

Elementary Teachers

.14

.12

.22

.16

Average correlation across the five types of teachers

.12

.11

.19

.14

Summary measure: (.10 ≤ r ≤ .14) x 1   
                        +   (.15 ≤ r ≤ .24) x 2         
                        +   (.25 ≤ r ) x 3

 4

 4

 9

 7