Open AccessTRAINING TEACHERS TO USE COMPUTERS: A CASE STUDY OF THE SUMMER TRAINING COMPONENT OF THE IBM/ETS SECONDARY SCHOOL COMPUTER EDUCATION PROGRAM
Author(s) -
Stecher Brian
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
ets research report series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.235
H-Index - 5
ISSN - 2330-8516
DOI - 10.1002/j.2330-8516.1984.tb00065.x
Subject(s) - ibm , citation , component (thermodynamics) , computer science , training (meteorology) , mathematics education , library science , school teachers , psychology , materials science , physics , meteorology , thermodynamics , nanotechnology
A training program in computer educationtTested in 89 secondary schools focused on the use of computers as tools in all subject areas. Each school received enough computers and software from ISM to equip a full computer laboratory. The schools were organized into local networks in eight regions and received training and continuing support in these network groups. Al least three teachers from each school participated in a mostly-long, intensive computer education program prior to the receipt of the computers. At the hub of each local network was a Teacher Training Institute (TTI) which provided training and on-going support during the project year. Thii report documents the TTI computer training programs and identifies critical features of the project that rejated to its . success. The report includes a discussion of the methodology employed in the study, a description of the form and contest of the computer education institutes, a narrative account of a "typical day" in one of the training programs, an evaluation of the program from participants' perspective,and.an analysis of the kinds of personal and organizational Characteristics that correlate with successful computer education activities. (JD) * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * from the original document. us. Dø5TM or 1011CATION NATIONAL INSTIIVIE OfNDUCATIONI EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INIORTAATION .04 Meunier* hes been repine/wed as CENTER tERICi PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HA BEEN GRANTED BY csurnme ham Me person o arganuehon amprostang s Minn. changes hose been mode to Improve rtimodut.hure quality Poe" of lore or .4mrtsont,*fated in rho docu ment do not nrcesertie represent etteM Pestles) et Oa TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER IMO." TRAINING TEACHERS TO USE CoMPUTERS: A CASE STUDY OF TIC SUMMER TRAM. C011.0tHENT OF THE WHETS SECOMARY SCHOOL COMPUTER EDUCA'TION PROGRAM