JRCE, Volume 33, Number 2, Winter 2000 Technology Subcultures and Indicators Associated with High Technology Performance in Schools Nancy Robbins Abstract An association between the relative integration of instructional technology departments and information services departments with indicators of high technology performance in school districts was identified in this statewide study. The areas of findings that determined the association are (1) factors used to determine cultural integration between the two subcultures, information services and instructional technology; (2) types of conflicts and resolutions between information services and instructional technology; and (3) indicators of high technology performance in schools. The results would indicate that the implication for practice is to gain a greater cultural understanding of the information services and/or instructional technology departments in school districts. The findings also show how a school district might wish to raise the indicators associated with technology performance in schools. Individual districts could do a replication of any or all of the study. Contributor Nancy Robbins received her EdD from Teachers College, Columbia University, specializing in educational administrative practice in the Organization and Leadership Department. She received her EdM with a concentration in administration, planning, and social policy from Harvard University. She spent 10 years as an instructional technology coordinator in Texas and Colorado and is currently an adjunct faculty member at the University of Texas in San Antonio, Our Lady of the Lake University, and the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. Address: Nancy Robbins, 5323 Costa Mesa, San Antonio, TX 78228; nirobbins@yahoo.com 
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