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The Study of the impact of technology in primary schools (STEPS) provides the most detailed picture yet of national ICT strategies and their impact in primary schools in the 27 countries of the European Union, as well as in Liechtenstein, Iceland and Norway.
Funded by the European Commission, this landmark study of ICT in Europe’s 209,000 primary schools was undertaken by European Schoolnet (EUN) and empirica GmbH, with the support of national correspondents, researchers, policy-makers, teachers and pupils in 30 countries. The study includes an analysis of interviews with 18,000 primary school teachers and head teachers, a review of relevant research in Europe (amounting to 60 research studies published in 22 countries), a survey of policy makers in 30 Ministries of Education on national ICT policies, 25 case studies of good practice and 30 country briefs. The study presents baseline data on 30 national primary education systems and their ICT strategies, and investigates the impact of ICT in three key areas of the education system: learners and learning, teachers and teaching and the school as a whole. The evidence shows that ICT related strategies at national, regional and local level have resulted in:
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Full report also available on the European Commission website. Integrated country reports Thirty country briefs were produced, each about eight pages, giving a succinct overview of the STEPS results for each country in a standard format. Each country brief contains a summary of ICT policy and initiatives in primary schools based on the policy survey, an analysis of the LearnInd data for that country, a summary of the results from national research, and descriptions of good practice in the country and the teachers’ view of the enablers, inhibitors and challenges behind them. Case studies: A fascinating set of 25 STEPS case studies has been produced describing good practices and the factors behind them in 14 countries, ranging from Romania to Portugal, Finland to Slovenia, large urban schools to isolated village schools. DK: Skovvangskolen DK: Molleskolen DK: Sondervangskolen EE: Kiili Gümnaasium EE: Harkujarve Lasteaed-Algkool ES: CEIP San Felix FI: Turun Normaalikoulu FI: Mäntymäen koulu FR: Ecole des Amandiers FR: Ecole Blaise Pascal HU: Gárdonyi Circle of Multigrade Schools IT: I.C. di Villa Santina and D.D. di Gemona del Friuli IT: Scuola G. Pascoli, D.D. Genzano, I° circolo NL: De Triangel PT: D. Miguel de Almeida School Cluster Group - Abrantes PT: Gomes Eanes de Azurara School Cluster Group - Mangualde PT: Pegões, Canha and Sto Isidro School Cluster Group - Foros do Trapo RO: Scoala No. 191 Bucharest RO: Scoala No. 1 Gagesti SE: Grevegårdsskolan SI: Osnovna sola Louis Adamič Grosuplje SI: Trnovo Primary School UK: Horndean Infants UK: New Invention Junior School UK: Prince Albert Junior and Infant School The study was financed (for €232,545.00) by the European Commission. Contract EACEA-2007- 4013. The views expressed do not reflect or engage the Community. © European Commission. Further information - Insight articles about STEPS: http://insight.eun.org/ww/en/pub/insight/school_innovation/ best_practice/steps_findings_presented.htm http://insight.eun.org/ww/en/pub/insight/school_innovation/best_practice/steps_workshop.htm http://insight.eun.org/ww/en/pub/insight/school_innovation/best_practice/steps.htm - STEPS consortium: European Schoolnet (EUN) www.europeanshoolnet.org empirica GmbH www.empirica.com - The ICT Impact Report (2007) http://insight.eun.org/ww/en/pub/insight/misc/specialreports/impact_study.htm STEPS National Correspondents AT: Reinhold Hawle, Astrid Leeb, Karl Lehner BE: Fernand Mesdom BG: Vesselin Spiridonov (ENIR) CZ: Petr Chalus, Silvie Pýchová CY: Effie Amanatidou and Nick Amanatidis (ENIR) DE: Hartmut Mitzlaff DK: Lilla Voss, Maja Raaberg EE: Aimur Liiva EL: Adam Angelis, Ms Papadaki, Sotirios Glavas ES: Carlos Medina; plus Manon van Leeuwen (ENIR) FI: Ella Kiesi FR: Nathalie Terrades HU: Petra Perenyi IE: Jerome Morrissey, Anne White IS: Salvör Gissurardóttir IT: Laura Franceschi, Marilena Nalesso LI: Hartmut Mitzlaff LT: Eugenijus Kurilovas, Vainas Brazdeikis LV: Arnis Gulbis (ENIR) LU: Daniel Weiler MT: Dennis and Lawrence Zammit, Raymond J. Camilleri NL: Bas Jonkers NO: Torbjorn Moe, Morten Søby PL: Maria Zając PT: Margarida Belchior, Teresa Evaristo RO: Doinita Ariton (ENIR) SE: Angela Andersson, Anna Klerfelt SI: Borut Campelj, Nives Kreuh SK: Viera Blahová, Viera Uhercikova UK: Vanessa Pittard, Martin Frost, Abby Rhodes |
