Teachers' ICT skills and knowledge needs
Final Report to SOEID
by
Dr Dorothy Williams
Kay Wilson
Amanda Richardson
Dr Jennifier Tuson
and
Louisa Coles
Web design by David Dixon
The School of Information and Media
FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT
The Robert Gordon University
1998
This report represents the views of the authors
and not necessarily those of
the Scottish Office Education and Industry Department |
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to the following members of our Advisory Committee for their support
and advice throughout the study:
Stuart MacDonald, Head of TCC, SOEID. (Chair)
Peter Galloway, Head Teacher, Trinity High School, Edinburgh
Professor Christine Howe, Department of Psychology, University of Strathclyde
Douglas McCreath, Assistant Principal, St Andrew's College of Education, Glasgow.
Margaret McPhail, ACOT, St Andrew's High School, Kirkcaldy
Robert Munro, Department of Business and Computer Education, Faculty of Education,
University of Strathclyde.
Richard Pietrasik, CREATIS Project Manager, West Lothian Council Education Services
HMI Stuart Robertson, Superhighways Task Force, SOEID.
Carol Walker, Head of Development Service, Argyll & Bute Department of Education
Valerie Wilson, ERU, SOEID
We thank SOEID for their ongoing advice and guidance.
We also thank the Directors of Education in Scottish local authorities for giving us
permission to approach schools at a time of considerable pressure and change.
Finally, we are particularly grateful to all those teachers, head teachers, librarians,
technicians, and education authority representatives who kindly gave up their time to
participate in this study.
