ICT in Schools - Department of Education and Skills

Contents
Foreword
Executive summary
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Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 1 ICT in primary and post-primary education in Ireland 1
1.1 Introduction 2
1.2 Background 3
1.3 ICT policy and investment in education 6
1.3.1 Policy for ICT in education 6
1.3.2 ICT in the curriculum 9
1.3.3 Investment in ICT in education 11
1.4 ICT infrastructure census in schools (2005) 12
1.4.1 Computers in schools 12
1.4.2 Other ICT equipment in schools 14
1.4.3 Expenditure on ICT and technical support 15
1.4.4 Other areas covered in the census 16
1.5 Summary 16
Chapter 2 Evaluation methods 17
2.1 Introduction 18
2.2 Approaches to evaluating ICT in schools 18
2.3 Overview and aims of the evaluation 20
2.4 National survey of primary and post-primary principals and teachers 21
2.4.1 Survey sampling methods 21
2.4.2 Survey research methods 22
2.4.3 Response rate 23
2.4.4 Comparison of respondents and population 24
2.5 Case-study school evaluations 25
2.6 Observations during classroom inspections (primary) and subject inspections (post-primary) 27
2.6.1 Primary schools 27
2.6.2 Post-primary schools 28
2.7 On-line evaluation 30
2.8 Evaluation outputs and terms 30
2.8.1 Outputs 30
2.8.2 Junior and senior classes 30
2.8.3 Quantitative terms used in this report 30
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