My next group of posts will focus on some of the find­ings from my dis­ser­ta­tion. This post will hope­fully pro­vide you with a bit of an overview of the project. My dis­ser­ta­tion was titled 1:1 Lap­top Impli­ca­tions and Dis­trict Pol­icy Con­sid­er­a­tions, and it was intended to answer some sys­tems level ques­tions about what is hap­pen­ing at 1:1 schools.  The study focused on 1:1 schools in Iowa, and I col­lected data from mul­ti­ple sources.  Data about the schools and their staffs were col­lected through the Iowa Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion and the Com­mon Core of Data.  Addi­tional teacher data were col­lected using a tool adapted from one cre­ated by Hutchi­son and Reinking’s instru­ment.  I was very for­tu­nate that nearly 1000 teach­ers fully com­pleted the sur­vey and over 100 schools were included in the study, 36 which were 1:1 schools.  I tried to write the series in a way that would be mean­ing­ful to prac­ti­tion­ers, and not focus on my sta­tis­ti­cal meth­ods and tech­niques. I’d be happy to chat more about my method­ol­ogy if you’re interested.

Nick Sauers

nck0208@gmail.com