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Edited by Dr. David J. Ayersman, Mary Washington
College,
and Dr. W. Michael Reed, New York University |
| formerly Journal of Research on Computing in
Education |
JRCE, Volume
33, Number 2, Winter 2000
Technology
Subcultures and Indicators Associated with High
Technology
Performance in Schools
Nancy Robbins
University of Texas in San Antonio, Our
Lady of the
Lake University, and University of the Incarnate
Word
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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