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BECTA Impact II published

Submitted by nickrushby on 24 June, 2013 - 09:34

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Understanding the impact of technology: learner and school level factors

Jean Underwood, Thomas Baguley, Phil Banyard, Gayle Dillon, Lee Farrington-Flint, Mary Hayes, Gabrielle Le Geyt, Jamie Murphy and Ian Selwood
Nottingham Trent University and University of Birmingham

Understanding the Impact of Technology 2008 is one of three interrelated projects commissioned by Becta. It follows on from Impact 2007 and the personalising learning projects (Underwood et al 2007; Underwood et al 2008). It has a specific focus on capturing changes in e-maturity and personalising learning at the individual learner level.

These interconnected projects provide a robust evidence base for the impact of digital technologies on learning and teaching. They also serve as coherent, research-supported advice to key policy makers.
Impact 2007 tested a set of research tools that allowed a national level investigation of the conditions under which e-learning is effective in schools. In particular, it sought to identify the effect of the move to more personalised learning and the increasing use of digital technologies on standard measures of school performance.

While Impact 2007 operated at the institutional level, the focus of the 2008 research has been that of the individual learner. A further difference is that Impact 2007 drew data from e-mature schools, whereas this research sampled across the range, including schools of both low and high e-maturity.