TOPIC: Student Learning

Q: How can technology influence student academic performance?

Click on an answer below to find research evidence, references, and CARET selected studies:

1. Technology improves student performance when the application directly supports the curriculum objectives being assessed.



2. Technology improves performance when the application provides opportunities for student collaboration.



3. Technology improves performance when the application adjusts for student ability and prior experience, and provides feedback to the student and teacher about student performance or progress with the application.



4. Technology improves performance when the application is integrated into the typical instructional day.



5. Technology improves performance when the application provides opportunities for students to design and implement projects that extend the curriculum content being assessed by a particular standardized test.



6. Technology improves performance when used in environments where teachers, the school community, and school and district administrators support the use of technology.

CARET is a project of the International Society for Technology in Education in partnership with Educational Support Systems. CARET was founded in 2000 with a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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