Background Paper for the Expert Panel on Educational Technology--August 31, 1998
List of Suggessted Reading on Effectiveness of Technology
compiled by Kathleen Fulton, University of Maryland Educational Technology Center
The Aspen Institute, (1996). Creating a learning society: Initiatives for education and technology. (Garmer, A.K. & Firestone, C.M., Rapporteurs). Washington, DC: The Aspen Institute, Communications and Society Program.
Center for Applied Special Technology, (1996). The role of online communications in schools: A national study. Washington, DC: Council of Great City Schools.
Fisher, C., Dwyer, D., Yocum, K. (Eds.), (1996). Education and technology: Reflections on computing in classrooms. San Francisco: Apple Press, Jossey-Bass Publishers.
Glennan, T.K. & Melmed, A. (1996) Fostering the use of educational technology: Elements of a national strategy. Santa Monica, CA: RAND.
Hativa, N. (1994). What you design is not what you get (WYDINWYG): Cognitive, affective, and social impacts of learning with an ILS--An integration of findings from 6 years of qualitative and quantative studies. International Journal of Educational Research, 21(1), 81-112.
Kulik, J.A. (1994). "Meta-analytic studies of findings on computer-based instruction," in Baker, EL., and O?Neil, H.F. Jr. (Eds), Technology assessment in education and training, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence, Erlbaum.
Means, B., Blando, J., Olson, K., Middleton, T., Morocco, C.C., Remz, A.R. & Zorfas, J. (1993). Using technology to support education reform (Contract No., RR91172010). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement.
Means, B. (ed) Technology and education reform: the reality behind the promise. (1994). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Inc. Publishers.
Means, B. Olson, K (1995) Technology?s role in education reform: Findings from a national study of innovating schools. (Contract N. PR 911972010). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement.
Melmed, A. (ed). The cost and effectiveness of educational technology: Proceedings of a workshop. (November, 1995). DRU-1205-CTL, Santa Monica, CA: RAND
Mokros, J.R., Goldsmith, L.T., Ghitman, M. & Ogfonowski, M.S. (1990) Evaluation of NGS Kids Network: Hello! and Acid Rain units, Cambridge, MA: TERC.
Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress. (1995). Teachers & Technology: Making the connection. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
Rubin, A. (1996). "Educational technology: Support for inquiry-based learning." Technology infusion and school change: Perspectives and practices. Fulton, K. (Ed) Model Schools Partnership Research Monograph Cambridge, MA: TERC
Sivin-Kachala, J. And Bialo, E.R., (1996). Report on the effectiveness of technology in schools. ?95-96. Washington, DC: Software Publishers Association
Tent Planet Teachers and Technology Survey Web 1010/1About/Document Survey/national.htm.
Weir, S. (1992). Electronic communities of learners: fact or fiction. Cambridge, MA: TERC
U.S. Department of Education. (1996). Getting America?s students ready for the 21st century. Washington, DC