Duration and relevance of a professional development program: using Intel Teach to the Future to illuminate successful programmatic features

Daniel Light; Tomoe Kanaya

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 3278–3281

The authors used survey data to examine whether a) a structural feature of a technology-focused professional development program and b) specific participant characteristics and responses to the program would predict successful outcomes. Two outcomes ...

Topics: Teachers, Professional Development, Software

Factors Influencing Outcomes from a Technology-Focused Professional Development Program

Tomoe Kanaya; Daniel Light; Katherine McMillan Culp

Journal of Research on Technology in Education Vol. 37, No. 2 (2005) pp. 313–329

Using survey data, the authors examined the relationship between intensity (as opposed to duration) of a technology-focused professional development program and specific participant characteristics in predicting successful outcomes. The four...

Trends in use of handheld technology to support student reading assessment

Wendy Martin; Cricket Heinze; Tomoe Kanaya

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 134–137

We propose to present findings based on work from the Reading First Evaluation for the state of New Mexico. As part of the implementation of Reading First programming, the state required all Reading First teachers to use handheld computers to...

Topics: Children, Evaluation, Elementary Education, Assessment, Programming