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Use of IWBs in Science Departments<br />

How many Science departments currently have IWBs installed?<br />

Twelve of the 178 Science departments answering this question did not have any<br />

IWBs installed. Those 12 schools had used their LC funding for Maths or English<br />

classrooms; they did not have a consistently negative view of their overall ICT<br />

provision. Figure 20 shows the number of IWBs reported as being in Science<br />

teaching classrooms by an overall school administrator for 200 schools. As with<br />

Maths, 38 school administrators did not enter any IWBs as being in Science<br />

classrooms, but this may not mean that these 38 departments do not have any in<br />

reality.<br />

Figure 20: Number of IWBs in Science departments<br />

Frequency<br />

0 10 20 30 40<br />

0 5 10 15<br />

IWBs in science dept in school<br />

<strong>The</strong> average number of IWBs in Science departments is now 5.8 (for those who<br />

report having at least one IWB 10 ). This is a slightly higher figure than for Maths, but<br />

may be a lower proportion of classrooms since schools tend to have more Science<br />

classrooms than Maths classrooms. In October 2003 just 0.5 IWBs per Science<br />

department were reported <strong>and</strong> 62% of all IWB provision in Science departments is<br />

reported as coming from LC funds.<br />

What IWB training has been undertaken so far?<br />

Little whole department training in IWB use has taken place in Science department<br />

so far, with less than one-fifth of departments reporting having undertaken basic<br />

training in ‘building confidence with the use of IWBs’, as shown in Table 12.<br />

10 <strong>The</strong> 30 schools who have not reported the full locations of their IWBs are ignored for these statistics since it is<br />

not clear whether the actual figure should be zero or not.<br />

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