The article to be discussed is listed below and is also accessible via the October 2006 Calendar.

Davis, N.E. & Karpati, A. (2005). What works and what does not? ICT and education research revisited. Proceedings of the World Conference on Computers and Education, Stellenbosch, South Africa, July 2005. Birmingham. Published by Chapman Hall.

Participants are expected to provide additional well-balanced literature reviews as input. Exemplar literature reviews include:

BECTa (2003a) ImpaCT2 Learning at home and school: Case studies. ICT in schools research and evaluation series, No. 8. British Educational Communications and Technology Agency: Coventry, United Kingdom.
[http://www.becta.org.uk/research/research.cfm?section=1&id=563]

Torgerson C., & Zhu D. (November, 2003) A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of ICT on literacy learning in English, EPPI Review, 5-16.
[http://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/EPPIWeb/home.aspx?page=/reel/review_groups/english/review_two.htm]


EPPI (2003) A systematic review of the impact on students and teachers of the use of ICT for assessment of creative and critical thinking skills. Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Coordination Centre, Institute of Education, University of London, United Kingdom. [http://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/EPPIWeb/home.aspx?page=/reel/review_groups/assessment/review_two.htm]

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