Teachers in all content areas were surveyed where possible. The National Educational Technology Standards have only been available since June of 1998. A pilot study was conducted to help identify terminology of concern and care was taken to provide explanations where the terminology was found to suspect. The amount of time will be presented in minutes. The value of Score is found by adding the values of the responses to the ten items found on the Technology Foundations for Students checklist located in the NETS document.
Years represents the number of years a teacher has been employed in the public school system.
A multiple regression analysis was performed on the data collected in the survey. The dependent variable is Score that reports the teacher's perceptions of their students' technology competency. Correlations were examined between the dependent and independent variables and between the independent variables. The literature review did not indicate an importance of individual variables and therefore all variables were entered into the analysis. The data was examined to determine if the assumptions of linearity, normality and homoscedasticity of the residuals and errors were met and if they met the criteria for multiple regression analysis.