Consortium on Chicago School Research

Snapshot 2003: Student Reports of Student Use of Technology

Students' reports about their use of technology at school for a variety of purposes such as practice drills, word processing, research on the Internet, and creating presentations. High levels indicate more frequent and diverse use among students.

Definition of Categories Charted Above

Category	Students in Chicago Public Schools:
1 None	never use a computer or the Internet at school to do any of these activities.
2 Limited	use a computer from once or twice a week to once or twice a semester to do word processing or research on the Internet. They use a computer from never to once or twice a month for e-mail, making presentations, analyzing data, doing practice drills, programming, or making web pages.
3 Integrated	use a computer almost every day to do word processing or research on the Internet. They perform the other computer activities in this measure once or twice a week.
4 Highly integrated	use a computer from once or twice a week to almost every day to do computer programming or to create web pages. They perform the other activities in this measure almost every day.

To see the items making up this measure and the response frequencies for each item, click here.

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