TABLE 3: TEACHER-DIRECTED STUDENT COMPUTER USE AND SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT NUMBER OF INDICATORS OF A POSITIVE ASSOCIATION*

 Estimated Technology  Investment
over 5-years

Allocation Among Types of Investment

Measure of Teacher-Directed Student Computer Use

 TOTAL Investment

HARDWARE (inventory)

 SOFTWARE (inventory x % of comps. runs on)

Support & Training time
relative to hardware/sof tware inventory

Frequency of assigning computer work during class

4

4

9

7

Breadth of software students use frequently

6

5

10

7

Frequent use of word processing

7

5

7

4

Frequent use of WWW browser

6

6

9

9

Frequent use of CD-ROM reference

4

2

5

3

Frequent use of presentation software

2

2

6

2

Frequent use of student multimedia authoring

2

2

3

0

Frequent use of spreadsheets/database software

2

1

4

4

Frequent use of e-mail

5

5

5

2

Total across all measures of teacher-directed student computer use

38

32

58

38

Total for…English Teachers

12

12

17

6

               Mathematics Teachers

12

9

14

12

                Science Teachers

1

1

9

8

               Social Studies Teachers

1

1

1

1

               Elementary Teachers

12

9

17

11

*  Weighted number of correlations across five groups of teachers, grouped by subject taught. For each correlation, the following weights are applied:   1 for .10 ≤ r < .15;    2 for .15 ≤ r < .25;    3 for r ≥ .25.   The last five rows provide cumulative total weights for teachers of a given subject across each of the indicators above.