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Home Technology Inventory

991 responses were recorded. 24 were rejected because responses were either all blank or were clearly mis-bubbled (answered 4, 5 or 6 to multiple yes/no or gender questions). Therefore, the analyzed sample consists of 967 responses. This represents just over two-thirds of the student body and is a large enough sample size from which to generalize. Demographics: 225 Frosh 245 Sophomores 225 Juniors 253 Seniors 19 year was blank 487 male 474 female 6 gender blank

Question 1: 962 students (99.5%) have computer access at home. Three dont and two did not answer this question. Question 2: 740 (76.5%) said it was their computer. 217 (22.4%) said it was someone elses. Six responded that they did not have one (inconsistent with the answers to question #1) and 2 left this question blank. Question 3: 524 (54.2%) said they share it. 454 (46.9%) said they do not share. Seven responded that they did not have one (inconsistent with the answers to question #1 and #2) and 3 left this question blank. Question 4: 402 have laptops, 416 have desktops, and 41 have bothroughly half and half. Five responded that they did not have one (inconsistent with the answers to question #1 thru 3) and 3 left this question blank. Question 5: 492 (50.9%) said they could bring it to school, 130 (13.4%) said they could not, and 340 (35.2%) said they did not know. Question 6: 672 (69.5%) have PCs, 270 (27.9%) have MACs, 10 have both, and 5 have Linux. Five blank and five dont have one. Question 7: As to the ages of their computers, 490 (50.7%) are one or two years old, 366 (37.8%) are three or four years old, 71 (7.3%) are five or six years old, and 20 are older than six. Question 8: Question 9: 947 (97.9%) have a printer 16 do not. 687 (71.0%) have a scanner and 274 (28.3%) do not.

Question 10: 953 (98.6%) have Internet access at home and six do not. There were six blanks and three misbubbles. Question 11: 889 (92.9%) have high-speed, 69 (7.1%) have dial-up, and six have no access.

Question 12: 871 (90.1%) have access to a digital camera and 91 (9.4%) do not. Question 13: 517 (59.0%) have access to a digital video camera and 434 (44.9%) do not. Question 14: In terms of number of hours per week the students spend on the computer for school work, 258 (26.7%) said one to five hours, 467 (48.3%) said six to ten, 221(22.9%) said 11 to 15, 73 (7.5%) said 16 to 20, 19 (2.0%) said 21 to 25, and 20 (2.0%) said over 25. Question 15: In terms of number of hours per week the students spend on the computer for nonschool work, 383 (39.6%) said one to five hours, 281 (29.1%) 39,6%)said six to ten, 153 (15.8%) said 11 to 15, 71 (7.3%) said 16 to 20, 38 (3.9%) said 21 to 25 and 33 (3.4%) said over 25. Given their propensity for multi-tasking, these last two results are suspect.

Implications
In terms of a student-laptop program, the relevant issues are these: out of 967 respondents, 22% do not have their own computer, while 76% of our families are already giving a computer to their children for their exclusive use, but only 19% (185 respondents) have a computer that (a) is new enough to do what wed ask them to do, and (b) they can bring to school.

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