Project title |
Survey of schools: ICT in education - benchmarking access, use and attitudes to technology in Europe's schools.
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Country or countries |
EU27 plus Croatia (HR); Iceland (IS); Norway (NO); Turkey (TR)
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Language(s) of report |
English
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Funder of research |
EC
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Date of fieldwork |
2011
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Main research focus |
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Target group studied |
Children; Adults
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Description of studied group |
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Age of children studied |
9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17;
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Methodology |
Quantitative
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Size of sample |
190000
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If survey, scope of sample |
International
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| Topics covered |
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Access and use; Activities; Opportunities and benefits
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| Findings |
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No overall relationship was found between high levels of infrastructure provision and student and teacher use, confidence and attitudes. It suggests strengthening public action at institutional, local, regional, national and European levels, to boost ICT use at school so as to reduce the gap between ICT use in and out of school - a gap identified many years ago but still persistent in 2012 - and give greater opportunities to about 30% of 16-year-old students lacking adequate home access to ICT to experience it at school. Findings of this survey plead for orientating such public action preferably towards building capacity for ICT pedagogical expertise at school level. Evidence also shows that increasing professional development opportunities for teachers is an efficient way of boosting ICT use in teaching and learning, since it helps build highly confident and supportive teachers. On average in the EU, more than 9 out of 10 students are in schools with broadband, most commonly between 2 and 30mbps. There is a strong case for further increasing efforts at school level to develop strategies concerning the use of ICT in T&L in order to benefit the large majority of students.
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| Further information |
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Relevant publications |
European Schoolnet. (2013). Survey of schools: ICT in education - benchmarking access, use and attitudes to technology in Europe's schools. Brussels: European Commission DG Communications Networks, Content & Technology.
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Report accessibility |
Printed or online report
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URL of report |
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/sites/digital...
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Dataset publicly available |
Yes
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Contact details of investigator |
www.eun.org
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