Arizona State University Disseminates Results of IBM Grant
Program Evaluation

Dissemination of the national study's results began in a
symposium at the meeting of the American Educational Research
Association in New Orleans, April 5, 1994.  The symposium,
"Integration of Technology into Teacher Preparation:  An
Evaluation of the 140 Site IBM Grant Program," was organized
and chaired by Judith A. Kull, University of New Hampshire.
Bruce L. Mallory began the symposium with an overview of the
National Education Advisory Board activities during the grant
period.  Sam M. Matsa of IBM was also at the head table.

Gary G. Bitter and Brandt W. Pryor, Arizona State University,
presented an overview of their findings on the grant program's
impact on teacher preparation.  Nearly two-thirds of all
projectsU teacher preparation faculty have been trained on IBM
technology; 44% of faculty received this training in the
projects' IBM laboratories, a direct result of the IBM grant.
Over 70,000 teachers have been trained in the projects' IBM
laboratories, between 1990-1993. Nearly 80% of them would not
have been exposed to IBM technology without the grant program,
and nearly 20% were members of minority groups.  Over 367
teacher preparation courses have been created or revised to
integrate the IBM grant into other grant support, primarily
used to buy more technology.

Mary M. Hatfield (Arizona State University), James Cooper
(University of Virginia), Lawrence Beard (Tuskeegee
University), and Scott Brown (University of Connecticut), then
discussed their IBM grant projects in light of the above
findings.

Further results of the study will be reported at the National
Educational Computing conference, June 13, 1994, from 1-2 pm,
in Boston.  Gary G. Bitter, Brandt W. Pryor, and Judith A.
Kull, will present RPreparing Teachers with Technology:
Evaluating the IBM Teacher Preparation Grant Program.S

Bitter and Pryor are preparing a monograph to report all study
results.  Copies will be sent to all project sites in the IBM
Grant Program along with the Fall 1994 issue of Interface.

For more information, contact:
Dr. Gary G. Bitter
Technology Based Learning and Research
Arizona State University
Campus Box 870908
Tempe, AZ  85257-0908
(602) 965-3322
.