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One-To-One Computing and Student Achievement in Ohio High Schools
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Williams, Nancy L.
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1411474599
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Year and Degree
2014, Doctor of Education (Educational Leadership), Youngstown State University, Department of Teacher Education and Leadership Studies.
Abstract
This research explores the impact of one-to-one computing on student achievement in Ohio high schools as measured by student performance on the Ohio Graduation Test. The study sample includes 24 treatment schools that are individually paired with a similar control school. The 1:1 programs in treatment schools have been in place for one to four years using various devices including laptops, netbooks, and iPads. An Interrupted Time Series methodology was deployed to examine OGT data over a period of five to eight years depending on how long the 1:1 program had been in place. Overall student performance and content specific achievement in math, reading, science, social studies, and writing are not significantly affected by the introduction of 1:1 computing when analyzed using IPD meta-analysis. When broken down by the longevity of the 1:1 program, consistent patterns did not emerge for any of the four time clusters that were examined using linear regression or meta-analysis. However, there are instances of the treatment group significantly outperforming the control group in one content area for one time cluster. These same findings hold true across demographic subgroups including gender, race, disability status and economic status. Patterns are not evident when studying the sample by time cluster for the various demographic subgroups; however, students with disabilities in the control group performed significantly higher that than their peers in the treatment schools for time clusters 1 and 4. Treatment schools, using a netbook device for their 1:1 program, produced the greatest overall change in scores (pre-treatment vs. treatment period) when compared to the other devices being used. Although statistically significant, the gain in test scores is very small.
Committee
Karen Larwin, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Robert Beebe, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
M. Kathleen Cripe, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Salvatore Sanders, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Pages
204 p.
Subject Headings
Educational Evaluation
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Educational Technology
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Instructional Design
Keywords
one to one computing
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implementation fidelity
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moble learning
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ubiquitous computing
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Williams, N. L. (2014).
One-To-One Computing and Student Achievement in Ohio High Schools
[Doctoral dissertation, Youngstown State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1411474599
APA Style (7th edition)
Williams, Nancy.
One-To-One Computing and Student Achievement in Ohio High Schools.
2014. Youngstown State University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1411474599.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Williams, Nancy. "One-To-One Computing and Student Achievement in Ohio High Schools." Doctoral dissertation, Youngstown State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1411474599
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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