TABLE 4: PROFESSIONAL USE OF COMPUTERS CORRELATED WITH SCHOOL TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT: NUMBER OF INDICATORS OF A POSITIVE ASSOCIATION*

 Estimated Technology Investment
over 5-years

Allocation Among Types of Investment

Measure of Teacher Involvement with Computers

 TOTAL Investment

HARDWARE (inventory)

 SOFTWARE (inventory x % of comps. runs on)

Support & Training time
relative to hardware/software inventory

Participation in staff development in past year dealing with computer topics

4

4

6

5

Frequency of informal discussions with other teachers about computers

4

2

4

2

Computer knowledge and professional use (scale)

3

3

6

3

Increased use of computers in teaching over past 5 years, both professionally and with students

3

4

5

3

Total Across All Measures of Teacher Involvement with Computers

 14

 13

 21

 13

Total for…English Teachers

1

2

4

1

                Mathematics Teachers

5

4

4

1

               Science Teachers

0

0

1

2

               Social Studies Teachers

4

4

4

2

               Elementary Teachers

4

3

8

7

*  See footnote to Table 3.