About ICT Test Bed
The ICT Test Bed project investigates how the sustained and embedded use of ICT in learning spaces can improve learner outcomes, classroom practice and institutional development. Uniquely, the project offers a longitudinal view of change in 30 schools and colleges over a four year period.
Participating schools and colleges have been given funding for investment in ICT-based resources. The implementation, management and outcomes of the project have been evaluated from institutional, practitioner and learner perspectives.
The project offers a detailed understanding of the relationships between ICT, institution-level developments, classroom practices and learner outcomes. In sum, ICT Test Bed provides a more holistic understanding of ICT-related pedagogic and institutional development than has been possible before.
Key project facts
- Four years: 2002 - 2006
- Thirty institutions: 22 primary schools, 5 secondary schools and 3 colleges. The institutions are gathered into 3 geographic clusters in areas of socio-economic disadvantage.
- Five project foci:
- ICT in learning and teaching
- ICT in leadership and management
- ICT and the effective use of teacher time
- ICT and inter-institutional collaboration
- ICT in institutional links with home and community
- Funded by the DfES
- Managed by Becta
- Evaluated by Manchester Metropolitan and Nottingham Trent Universities: the final evaluation report will be delivered in early 2007.