Volume 37 Number 4 Summer 2005 Computers and Student Learning: Interpreting the Multivariate Analysis Of PISA 2000Talbot Bielefeldt AbstractIn November 2004, economists Thomas Fuchs and Ludger Woessmann published a statistical analysis of the relationship between technology and student achievement using year 2000 data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). The 2000 PISA was the first in a series of triennial assessments of 15-year-olds conducted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The assessment included problems in reading, math, and science, as well as questions about student background, school characteristics, and information on the use of computers and the Internet at home and at school. Fuchs and Woessmann analyzed data from 31 countries: 96,855 students tested in math and 174,227 students tested in reading. 
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ContributorsTalbot Bielefeldt is the director of the Research & Evaluation Department of the International Society for Technology in Education. ContactTalbot Bielefeldt Copyright © 2005, ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education). All rights reserved. | ||||
