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Hawkins, Randolph; Paris, Arthur E. – Journal of Negro Education, 1997
Examines differences in use of and familiarity with computing technology between black and white undergraduate students in a sample of 570 students from a single university. Black students enter school with less experience with computers, and this difference is not lessened by collegiate experience. Institutional factors may be responsible for…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Black Students, Computer Attitudes, Computer Literacy
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Bennett, Randy Elliot; Persky, Hilary; Weiss, Andrew R.; Jenkins, Frank – National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
The Problem Solving in Technology-Rich Environments (TRE) study was designed to demonstrate and explore innovative use of computers for developing, administering, scoring, and analyzing the results of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) assessments. Two scenarios (Search and Simulation) were created for measuring problem solving…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, National Competency Tests, Problem Solving, Simulation
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Hackbarth, Steven – Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual, 2004
This is the third in a series of studies examining young students' attitudes toward and knowledge about computers. Data were collected at the end of students' third and fourth grade academic years and analyzed with respect to their "love" of computers, their feelings of competence in using them, and the number of computer terms they…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Internet, Computer Literacy, Access to Computers
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Ocak, Mehmet A. – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2005
This study reports an investigation of the effects of gender, age, and racial and ethnicity on the attitudes of mathematics teachers towards computer use. The participants of the study were mathematics teachers working in a wide range of New York public schools (n = 50). A Confidence with Computers in Mathematics Teachers (CCMT) rating scale was…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Computer Attitudes, Statistical Analysis