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A qualitative study of four secondary education state maintained schools in Catalonia, with a long tradition of using IT, was carried out following an interpretive methodology. This study sought to identify the main internal factors that impinge directly on the quality of integration of information technology into these schools. These factors appear to be the schools’ internal decision making procedures, the basic pedagogical conceptions on the access to IT by the students and its use, and the participation levels of teachers in the innovation process. Drawing on the information gathered, some general conclusions are put forward.
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i Albalat, J.Q., i Tarragó, F.R. (1995). Interpreting internal school factors on the educational integration of IT. In: Watson, D., Tinsley, D. (eds) Integrating Information Technology into Education. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34842-1_16
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