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Changes in students’ computer literacy

As a Function of Classroom Access to Computers and Teacher Utilization

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The CLAT provided considerable information about children’s attitudes and knowledge well beyond computer literacy. It revealed improvements in the use of language, as well as in spelling and penmanship. I understand very well that evaluation engineers would prefer to “partner with teachers” to ensure more thorough grant-funded documentation of the many and diverse process and product outcomes of computer technology expenditures (Baker, 1999). However, a simple count of computer-related terms listed by students appeared, for my limited purposes, to be both a valid and reliable indicator of at least one small aspect of computer literacy

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Hackbarth, S. Changes in students’ computer literacy. TECHTRENDS TECH TRENDS 44, 30–34 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02818189

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