Development and Use of Indicators of ICTs in Education for the Baltic and CIS Countries
Objectives
- Strengthening ICT application potential for national education capacity building
- Identifying the needs of UNESCO Member States for the development of a long-term project
- Examination of state-of-the-art, needs and perspectives of ICT usage in the project field
- Familiarising specialists from UNESCO Member States with the possibilities of ICT usage in the field project area
- Preparation and testing of a set of teaching/learning materials to conduct IITE training activities in the project field
- Training educators from UNESCO Member States in modern methods of ICT usage in a particular field of educational activity
Scope
- Primary and secondary education
Methods Used for Data Collection
- Questionnaire in MSWord format to determine the efficiency of ICT usage in education
Indicators Used
- Official documents in IT/ICTs in secondary education
- Available state curriculum on IT
- ICT usage to support other subjects implied in their curricula
- Availability of computers
- The average number of students per computer
- Percentage of IBM- and Apple-compatible computers
- Percentage of schools equipped with one or more multimedia system
- Percentage of schools equipped with local network
- Percentage of computers with installed OS DOS, Windows, Apple Macintosh and other kinds of educational software
- Percentage of software designed by the specialists within the country and that of foreign specialists
- Percentage of computers connected to the internet, with e-mail or with own web pages
- Percentage of teachers who have undertaken the computer literacy course from September 1999
- Computer skills of teachers
(For more information see ICT Indicators in Education in the Baltic States in Word or PDF)