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Across The Great Divide: The Effects Of Technology In Secondary Biology Classrooms, Johnny Howard Worley
Across The Great Divide: The Effects Of Technology In Secondary Biology Classrooms, Johnny Howard Worley
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This study investigates the relationship between technology use and student achievement in public high school across North Carolina. The purpose of this study was to determine whether a digital divide (differences in technology utilization based on student demographics of race/ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, and municipality) exists among schools and whether those differences relate to student achievement in high school biology classrooms. The study uses North Carolina end-of-course (EOC) data for biology to analyze student demographic data and assessment results from the 2010-2011 school year from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. The data analyses use descriptive and factorial univariate …