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Use of IWBs in English Departments<br />

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

30 of the 175 English departments answering this question did not have any IWBs<br />

installed. Those 30 schools had used their LC funding for Maths or Science<br />

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

provision Figure 24 shows the number of IWBs reported as being in English<br />

teaching classrooms by an overall school administrator for 168 schools. 51<br />

administrators did not enter any IWBs as being in English departments. This is<br />

higher than the self-reported figure of 30 by Heads of Departments but the sample is<br />

slightly larger <strong>and</strong> administrators failed to allocate IWBs in any subject area in a few<br />

cases.<br />

Figure 24: Number of IWBs in English departments<br />

Frequency<br />

0 10 20 30 40 50<br />

0 5 10 15<br />

IWBs in english dept in school<br />

<strong>The</strong> average number of IWBs in English departments is now 3.8 (for those who<br />

report having at least one 11 ). This is a strikingly lower figure than the number in<br />

Maths <strong>and</strong> Science departments which is between 5 <strong>and</strong> 6. In October 2003 the<br />

mean reported number for the same set of schools was 0.2 IWBs per department: in<br />

other words, most English departments did not have a single IWB. 63% of the<br />

funding for IWBs in English departments is coming from LC; this is a similar level to<br />

Maths <strong>and</strong> Science.<br />

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

Very little training for English staff in the use of IWBs appears to have been<br />

undertaken at a departmental level. <strong>The</strong> training already undertaken is listed in<br />

11 <strong>The</strong> 39 schools who have either not reported the full locations of all IWBs or who have entered zero for<br />

English are ignored for these calculations.<br />

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