60. How many students are currently enrolled in your school?

61. How many teachers at your school are at the grade 4 and 5 levels?

62. How would you characterize your school according to socio-economic standing?

"Edu-ville" consists of 36 schools of grades kindergarten to grade five and 13 schools of grades kindergarten to grade six. Student populations at these schools range from 87 to 520 students, with 70% of the schools having between 200 to 450 students.

The overall socio-economic group rating of the schools, as rated by their principals, is predominantly "middle class" (on a five level scale). Only one school reports servicing the lowest level of "very poor" although 35% of the schools include the second lowest level of "poor" as one of their ratings. (Several schools indicated that there was more than one socio-economic group present at their locale.) Two schools report servicing the highest level of "very affluent" and 29% include the second highest level of "relatively affluent" as one of their ratings.

"Edu-ville" has a total count of approximately 224 teachers at the grade four and five levels. This may be considered a maximum number, in that it includes job-sharing teachers as well as teachers of split grades. The average number of grade four and/or grade five teachers at individual schools is 4.6 teachers per school.

Table 1:  General School District Information

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63. (What kind of help) does your school have (for computers):

Eighty-two percent of the schools (40 schools) have a teacher(s) with time designated specifically allocated to working with computers, either teaching scheduled computer classes or providing general computer lab duties. (Note: This teacher cannot necessarily be termed a “computer teacher”.) Of this subset of schools, the average time allocated to computer related duties is a total of 8.6 hours per week per school.  The range of times in these schools, however, starts at a mere 35 minutes per week and extends to 18 hours per week, which is approximately a half time position. Sixty-nine percent (34 schools) have teachers involved in scheduled computer classes, and these teachers spend an average of 8.9 hours per week in the instruction of computer classes.  Only 49% (24 schools) allocate any official time towards the maintenance of the computers, software, and/or networks. The average time given to maintenance is 2 hours per week, with a range of 35 minutes per week to 5 hours per week. Fifty-one percent of the schools have no lab maintenance scheduled into the teacher budget at all.

Table 2: General School Information

Twenty-nine percent (14 schools) have one teacher who teaches computer classes as a “trade-off” with another teacher who provides some other curriculum lessons to their class.  Five of these schools have no other specified teacher performing “computer duties”.  

Thirty-three percent (16 schools) have parent volunteers who help students work with computers during school hours; two schools have parent volunteers during out-of-school hours.   Fourteen of these schools with parent volunteers have no specified teacher performing “computer duties”.  

Thirty-three percent (16 schools) have student volunteers who help other students work with computers. (Half of these sixteen schools additionally have parent volunteers.) 

Only one school in the district has a complete lack of designated help for “computer duties”.

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64. Does your school have a computer lab? If yes, how many computers?

All 49 schools have computer labs in use, with an average of 30 computers per school lab.  Four percent (2 schools) have less than 27 computers in the lab, and 14% (7 schools) have more than 31 computers in the lab.  The smallest and sixth smallest schools (in student population) have labs with only 19 and 14 computers, respectively. Maximum class size at grades 4 and 5 in British Columbia is usually 30 children. As there is often one or two computers not functioning properly, and the teacher is likely to need one computer for instruction, most intermediate classes would often have one or two students needing to share a computer.

Eighty-two percent (40 schools) have computers located in classrooms.  In these 40 schools, the average number of classroom computers (in the entire school) is 10.7, an indication that “Edu-ville” schools have largely chosen computer labs over the distributed method of computers in the classrooms. 

Surprisingly, 10% (5 schools) do not have any instructional computers available in the library, whereas the other 90% (44 school libraries) have an average of 3.1 computers, with 62% equipped with CD-ROM. Eighty-two percent of the libraries are connected to the network server and 33% of the Learning Assistance rooms are connected.

Table 3: General School Computer-Related Information

Note: Statistics are calculated with respect to the schools who do have computers in these categories.

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65. How would you generalize the average age of your schools' teacher/student (ie. not office) computers?

On a generalized rating scale, 22% of “Edu-ville” schools have made it a priority to update their computer equipment to modern standards.  Another 39% of its schools have made a significant effort to update. Only 6% (3 schools) indicated a lack of good progress in this area (categories a and b).

Table 4: Generalized Description of School Computers

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66. About how many of the teacher/student computers (ie. not office) are equipped with CD-ROM?

Availability of CD-ROM

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67. How long has your school been connected to the Internet?

At the time of this study, only one school is still waiting for Internet access in the computer lab.  Internet access has been available for an average of 15 months, however, 37% of the schools are in their first year of Internet access and only 8% have had Internet access for over 2 years. Twenty-nine percent of the schools have Internet wiring in place for all classrooms, 12% have wiring ready in a few classrooms.  Eighty-two percent of the libraries and 31 % of Learning Assistance rooms have internet wiring.

Note: 2 schools did not supply this data.

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68. About how many of the teacher/student computers are connected to the Internet?

Ninety-four percent of the computer labs (46 labs) are networked (38 WindowsNT, 3 MacJanet, 5 type unknown).

Thirty-one percent of the schools have networking available in all classrooms, and 6% have networking in only a few classrooms.

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69. How would you generalize your overall staff commitment to integrating technology?

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70. Are there any comments regarding the integration of computer technology into the curriculum which have not been addressed to your satisfaction in this questionnaire?

Note: As the Online Questionnaire differs from the secondary questionnaire given to School Principals, some additional information is available.

"Extra" General Information

Peripheral devices:

With respect to peripheral devices, the most common device is the printer. All the schools have access to printers, with 94% having at least one laser printer. The average number of printers (any kind) available for use in instruction is 3.8 per school. Forty-nine percent of the schools also have a colour printer available for use in instruction.  When all devices at a school are counted, the average number per school is 7 devices, with the range being from 1 device to 17 devices.

Table 5: Peripheral Devices Available

Out-of-school computer time for students:  

Eighty-eight percent (43 schools) have computers available for student use outside of regular class time.  The average hours available per week are 5 hours, with a range of 1 hour to 10 hours. Twenty percent (10 schools) have some sort of a “computer club” for students.  Membership size and grade level is varied among the schools. 

School training sessions, pro-d, release time etc. provided for teachers:

Eighty percent of the schools (39 schools) provided computer training sessions or workshops in the last two years, which were distinct from the sessions offered by the district itself. There was an average of 5 workshops (over two years) at these schools, with a range of 1 to 23 workshops being offered. 

Seventy-three percent (36 schools) provided in-school professional development time allocated to using or integrating technology in the last two years. The average time per school was 6 hours, with a range of 1 hour to 17.5 hours.

Sixty-nine percent (34 schools) provided in-school release time (apart form professional development days) for teachers for the purposes of using or integrating technology.  The average time per school was 12 hours, with a range of 2 hours to 50 hours.