NCTI -

National Center for Technology Innovation
Advancing Technology Innovations for All Students

Research

  • NCSeT Dissertation Grants ProgramNew Post!

    Posted on April 25th, 2008

    The National Center for Supported eText (NCSeT), a federally funded research center, recently announced a Call for Proposals to support dissertation research investigating the impact of supported electronic text on middle school or high school students’ reading comprehension of content area material.

     Read More Posted in: Funding, Research
    Tags:, ,

  • Making Ed-Tech Research More Relevant

    Posted on February 7th, 2008

    Captivating footage of the “Speaking Out on Educational Technology Research” panel from NCTI’s Technology Innovators Conference was showcased on eSchoolNews TechWatch  this week.  Watch clips of panelists discuss how findings from education technology research can more effectively be used to drive improvements in the field. Panelists included Milton Chen, executive director of The George Lucas […]

     Read More Posted in: Education, Research
    Tags:,

  • Technology and 21st Century Skills: The Future of Education

    Posted on July 26th, 2007

    A new report on a survey by CISCO Systems and Zogby International provides details of more than 7,000 Americans polled on their views of the importance of 21st Century Skills in today’s schools. The report emphasizes a strong trend in the power of technology and networking to improve education, connect to communities, and help teachers.

     Read More Posted in: News, Research
    Tags:,

  • New ISTE Report: A National Consideration of Digital Equity

    Posted on June 27th, 2007

    ISTE released a major report at the Digital Equity Summit: Engaging and Empowering the 21st Century Learner. The summit was held in conjunction with the National Education Computing Conference in Atlanta, running June 24-27, 2007. The report examines solutions and strategies to address persistent gaps in access and creative use of educational computing.

     Read More Posted in: News, Research
    Tags:

  • Developing a Research Agenda

    Posted on January 8th, 2006

    Key Finding from the NCTI Moving Toward Solution Report
    All stakeholder groups expressed concern about the growing pressure to address the mandate for evidence-based research and product adoption. Stakeholders, however, have not reached a consensus about a common core of objectives. The existing research base is insufficient to meet this mandate, and stakeholder groups vary significantly […]

     Read More Posted in: Research
    Tags:

Articles and Papers

  • IES Report on Student Computer and Internet Use

    This article reports statistics on the use of computers and the Internet by American children enrolled in nursery school and students in kindergarten through grade 12. The report examines the overall rate of use, the ways in which students use the technologies, where the use occurs, and the relationships of these aspects of computer and Internet use to demographic and socioeconomic characteristics such as students’ age and race/ethnicity and their parents’ education and family income.

Websites

The following links are to outside resources and are not contained on this site.

  • Best Evidence Encyclopedia (The BEE)

    The Best Evidence Encyclopedia is a free web site created by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education (CDDRE) under funding from the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. It is intended to give educators and researchers fair and useful information about the strength of the evidence supporting a variety of programs available for students in grades K-12.  The BEE provides summaries of scientific reviews produced by many authors and organizations, as well as links to the full texts of each review. The summaries are written by CDDRE staff members and sent to review authors for confirmation.

  • Pew Internet and American Life Project

    The Pew Internet & American Life Project produces reports that explore the impact of the internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative source on the evolution of the Internet through collection of data and analysis of real-world developments as they affect the virtual world.

  • Technology Commercialization: A Guide to Internet Researching

    The New York State Technology and Science Law Center (NYSTAR), affiliated with the Syracuse University College of Law, produced this excellent guide to the specific commercialization of technology products and the use of the Internet as a research tool to support entrepreneurship. The guide contains sections on performing market analyses, producing Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRDA’s), obtaining venture capital, intellectual property rights, regulations under a variety of governmental and international agencies, and other critical topics.

Technology Commercialization: A Guide to Internet Researching

The New York State Technology and Science Law Center (NYSTAR), affiliated with the Syracuse University College of Law, produced this excellent guide to the specific commercialization of technology products and the use of the Internet as a research tool to support entrepreneurship. The guide contains sections on performing market analyses, producing Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRDA’s), obtaining venture capital, intellectual property rights, regulations under a variety of governmental and international agencies, and other critical topics.

Read More
Posted in: Commercialization, Research, Technology Transfer

Navigation

    Search

    Links