Survey+Results

Results of Hardware Survey of Practicum Students
Secondary/Middle Education faculty discussed what could be accomplished in their classes with one-to-one laptops. We determined what the minimum hardware requirements would be to support the required software. Practicum students were then surveyed each semester to find if they have a laptop already or not, and if so, what is its configuration. The results showed that many students have laptops and the numbers are slowly increasing that have the required hardware and software to carry out the projects that would help them become the teachers of tomorrow's digital natives.

//**Highlight of Results from Spring 2008**// //**For detailed survey results, click here:**//
 * Of 29 who responded, 3 have only a desktop, 24 have only a laptop, 1 has both and 1 has no laptop or desktop. //[Requirement: laptop] **86% meet the requirement.**//
 * Of 28 //who responded,// 2 have Mac OS X, 4 have Windows Vista, 3 have Windows 98, and 19 have some version of Windows XP. //[Requirement: Mac OS X or Windows XP] **75% meet the requirement.**//
 * Of the 28 who responded, the average age of their computer is 2.09 years old. It appears that most students have owned their laptops since their freshman year at UMF or their senior year in high school, although 6 of them have computers that are over 3 years old.
 * Of 14 who responded, only 8 have 80 gig hard drives or larger. //[Required minimum: 80 gigs] **57% meet the requirement.**//
 * Of 19 who responded, 11 have 1 gig or more of RAM. //[Required minimum: 1 gig] **58% meet the requirement.**//

//**Highlight of Results from Fall 2007**// //**For detailed survey results, click here:**//
 * Of 32 who responded, 3 have only a desktop, 21 have only a laptop, 6 have both and 1 has no laptop or desktop. //[Requirement: laptop] **87% meet the requirement.**//
 * Of 31 //who responded,// 5 have Mac OS X, 2 have Windows 98, 23 have Windows XP and 1 has Windows. //[Requirement: Mac OS X or Windows XP] **80% meet the requirement.**//
 * Of the 31 who responded, the average age of their computer is 1.72 years old. It appears that most students have owned their laptops since their freshman year at UMF or their senior year in high school, although 6 of them have computers that are over 3 years old.
 * Of 20 who responded, only 4 have 80 gig hard drives or larger. //[Required minimum: 80 gigs] **20% meet the requirement.**//
 * Of 23 who responded, 13 have 1 gig or more of RAM. //[Required minimum: 1 gig] **57% meet the requirement.**//

//**Highlight of Results from Spring 2007**// //**For detailed survey results, click here:**//
 * Of 22 who responded, 3 have only a desktop computer, 15 have only a laptop, and 4 have both. There were no students who didn't own some type of computer. //[Requirement: laptop] **86% meet the reqiurement.**//
 * Of 22 who responded, 1 has Mac OS X, 5 have Windows 98, and 16 have Windows XP. //[Requirement: Mac OS X or Windows XP] **77% meet the requirement.**//
 * Of the 22 who responded, the average age of their computer is 2.16 years old; however, one student is using a 9 year old computer which skews the average. It appears that most students have owned their computers since their freshman year at UMF or their senior year in high school.
 * Of 17 who responded, only 5 have 60 gig hard drives or larger, 10 have 50 gigs or more, 7 have less than 50 gigs. //[Required minimum: 60 gigs] **29% meet the requirement.**//
 * Of 18 who responded, only 5 have 1 gig or more of RAM, 8 have 512MB or more, and 10 have less than 512MB. //[Required minimum: 1 gig] **28% meet the requirement.**//


 * //Note://** The freshman class entering in fall 2008 at UMF will be the first class who were involved in MLTI as seventh graders and used Mac OS X computers.