Research
Beginning in 1999, both quantitative and qualitative research has and continues to be conducted on thousands of teachers and administrators that have taken our continuously updated flagship course, Teachers Discovering Computers (TDC). Each participant is asked to complete a 15 question pretest questionnaire in Week 1 of the TDC class and then asked to complete a posttest questionnaire which includes 5 qualitative questions at the end of week 8.
For all classes of at least 30 participants, the results are compiled and provided to schools and districts as a Formal Research Report to (a) document TDC’s success; and (b) provide formal research to document and validate expenditure of funds in accordance with The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and Title II, Part D (EETT) of the No Child Left Behind Act. Examples of research conducted on TDC participants are linked below. More than 12,000 inservice teachers and K–12 administrators have taken TDC with a 94% completion rate.
Research Summary [PDF, 24KB] | Quantitative Research [PDF, 28KB] | Qualitative Research