ITR: The Educational Consequences of the Digital Divide

这个项目考察了计算和信息技术在学校和家庭对初中生和高中生的教育影响。它调查了数字鸿沟的第二阶段，这一阶段不仅仅是缺乏获得信息技术(IT)的机会。它考察了在将白人与少数民族、男孩与女孩以及更富裕的儿童与贫困儿童进行比较时，计算是否有不同的教育益处。这项研究结合了对调查数据的统计分析和对儿童在学校、课后计划和家里使用电脑的实地观察。这项研究的目标是深入了解一些孩子在计算机教育方面比其他孩子获得更多好处的过程。它试图记录正在发生的教育好处，确定哪些类型的学生错过了这些好处及其原因，并确定哪些类型的教育应用程序产生了最大的好处。这项研究旨在帮助关心教育公平问题的政策制定者、参与在学校提供有效信息技术的教育工作者，并让公民了解数字鸿沟的教育后果。

This project examines the educational impact of computing and information technologies, both at school and in the home, for middle and high-school students. It investigates a second stage of the Digital Divide, one that goes beyond lack of access to information technology (IT). It examines whether there are different educational benefits to computing when comparing whites to minorities, boys to girls, and more affluent to poorer children. The research combines statistical analyses of survey data with fieldwork observations of children using computers at school, after-school programs, and at home. The goal of the research is to gain insight into the processes by which some children gain more than others in terms of educational benefits from computing. It seeks to document the educational benefits that are occurring, to identify what kinds of students are missing out on these benefits and why, and to identify what kinds of educational applications yield greatest benefits. This research is intended to aid policymakers who are concerned with equity issues in education, educators involved in providing effective information technology in schools, and to inform citizens about the educational consequences of the Digital Divide.