Presentation at CoSN Annual Conference Venue: Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington DC Date: 6 March 2012

1. Impact of ICT in
Education: Evidence and
Future Direction
CoSN Annual Conference
Washington, 6 March 2012
Øystein Johannessen
Cerpus/Education Impact
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2. Outline
• Approaches to impact analysys
• What do we know about the effects of ICT?
• The Road(s) Ahead
• Slides at www.slideshare.net/oysteinj/
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3. "Assessing the effects
of ICT in education"
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4. Approaches to Impact
• End point of intervention
• Impact and assessing impact is often related
to policy goals
• Quantifying versus assessing impact
• Axis: "Raising standards" vs "Assessing
Learning"
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5. Some findings from EUN
Impact Study (2006)
• ICT impacts positively on educational performance in
primary schools, especially in the native language, less
in science, and not in mathematics (Machin, UK, 2006)
• ICT improves attainment levels of school children in
native language (above all), in Science and in Design
and technology, between ages 7 and 16, particularly in
primary schools. ( Harrison, UK, 2002)
• Pupils, parents and parents consider ICT has a positive
impact on pupils´ learning (Rambøll, Denmark, 2006)
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6. OECD on Impact of
ICTs
• It is the quality of usage rather the amount of
usage that defines the impact of ICT
• PISA studies have shown correlations between
ICT familiarity at home and PISA scores
• No clear correlation between in-school ICT use
and PISA score
• Lack of models and longitudinal studies
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7. The Roads Ahead
• The Indicator Road: "Higher order benchmarks"
• The Assessment Road: narrow double
assessment gap. ICT in formative assessment.
• The Comptetency Road: ICT for key
comptetencies and 21st century skills
• The Social Road
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8. The Social Road
• Civics (Arabic Spring, DeforestAction)
• Social Cohesion
• Employability
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9. Thank you for listening
In times of change, learners inherit the earth,
while the learned find themselves equipped
to deal with a world that no longer exists
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