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I'm fortunate at UC Irvine to work with a number of colleagues in the Dept. of Education and throughout the university who are doing extremely interesting work related to the social aspects of information & communication technologies. One of them is Hank Becker, a socioliogist in the dept. of education who has been conducting cutting-edge survey research for decades on the role of technology in schools.
In reply to my previous Papyrus News message, Hank pointed me to his recent article on the use of technology in assessment, titled "A Project-Based Assessment Model for Judging the Effects of Technology Use in Comparison Group Studies." The paper can be dowloaded in Word or .pdf format from <http://www.sri.com/policy/designkt/found.html>. You can also download his PowerPoint presentation if you want, and there are a number of other interesting-looking papers on the site related to educational technology research.
Hank, by the way, is one of those people who writes more interesting papers than most people can even read, let alone write. He's been engaged in a multi-year survey study called Teaching, Learning, and Computing, which has published about three zillion papers (many available at http://www.crito.uci.edu/tlc/html/tlc_home.html). A good summary of that research was published in Educational Policy Analysis Archives and can be found in a single paper at <http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v8n51/>. Finally, for those of you interested in digital divide issues, you might see Hank's paper on "Who's Wired and Who's Not" at <http://www.futureofchildren.org/cct/>.
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