Three years ago the County Commissioners hired MGT to conduct a performance audit of the school system. Recommendation 15 of that audit states: Establish a process to identify the level of computer utilization for each school and develop a process to undertake an annual computer utilization assessment as a component of the development of the Capital Budget.

Here are some key points about this survey:

• The survey is designed to represent student usage of computers in classrooms, media centers and general academic labs in a given two-week period.
• School personnel are responsible for picking survey weeks and conducting the survey.
• Schools self-report the data. School personnel have access to school data at all times

Based on a survey return rate of 46%, our students utilize computers in school more than 37,885 times each week.  Here are the two-week '04-'05 survey results for classroom use, media center use and academic lab use.  In a nutshell, here are three generalizations I make from the district data.

This is Year 3 of the survey.  The '05-'06 Survey Schedule is as follows:

January
9-13:  BCMS, MMS
30-2/3:  BSE, WOES, AES, MCP, HIES, NES, BES
31-2/6:  BMS

February
6-10: SES, AES, MCP, BES
13-17: NMS, MES
20-24:  BCMS, WCHS, NES
27-3/3: CHS, HIES

March
13-17:  MES, BMS
20-24: BSE, WOES, WCHS

April
10-14: NMS

May
8-12: CHS, MMS