The results of the study — the largest to date — disappointed Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the publisher that commissioned the research and had expected better outcomes from the new technology.
But at the same time, a company executive said the firm remains undeterred in developing its digital textbooks and was heartened by scores in Riverside Unified, the one d istrict in the study where students using iPads markedly outperformed their peers.
In a white paper that the company published, putting a positive spin on the research, the Riverside teachers in the study extolled the softwar e, which it said motivated students to take charge of their learning.
Students I spoke with last year at a San Francisco middle school that was part of the study said they liked the features and found them helpful.
HMH has since then improved the note-taking capability, after students complained about its limitations. The study found no particular iPad feature directly contributed to math improvement, but collectively they kept students more engaged ; there were also ind ications — though no hard numbers — that students with iPads did more math at home and after class.
The students using the software who did outscore other students tended to have better attitudes, said Denis Newman, president of Empirical Education , the Palo Alto firm that did the research. M ost of the teachers volunteered to be part of the iPad study, but at least one teacher who proved to be a Luddite was assig ned to the study.
By the end of the year, nine of the 11 teachers said they would continue to use the iPad if given the choice sorry, but HMH took them back. Why the big difference with Riverside? Empirical Education found that the two teachers in Riverside used the iPads as a teaching tool much more extensively than the other nine teachers in the study, and the students used the iPads many more minutes per week in class than all but one of the others — a possible connection.
But Riverside Superintendent Rick Miller has another explanation. The district has been proactive in deploying mobile technologies among its 42, students; it has learned that the best strategy is to encourage students to make iPads and tablets their personalized learning devices, as indispensable as cell phones. The other difference, Miller said, is how the teachers used the iPads. Mathematical content at each grade level is divided into topical units.
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