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The national monitoring technology survey sought information from students about their perceptions of their achievement and potential in technology. Students were also asked about their involvement in technology related activities within school and beyond. The survey was administered to students in independent format, with teacher help readily available. Four questions asked students to select a response on a four point scale.

The remaining survey questions were open ended, inviting students to give a written or spoken response. For each question, their responses were categorized into several categories, as indicated below.

What is technology?
At the beginning of the survey, students were asked what they thought technology was. The table at right summarises the responses into eight categories.

For both Mäori students in general education and students in Mäori immersion programmes, the most popular category was Making and designing, with other areas substantially lower.
WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY?
 % responses
GEd MI
Hi-tech equipment/computers 16 24
Making and designing 46 38
Learning about equipment 13 11
Science 3 4
Inventing 5 0
Meeting needs, solving problems 10 0
Workshop subjects 20 4
Other appropriate 24 5
TECHNOLOGY SURVEY
percentages — Mäori students in general education    Mäori Immersion students
w much do you like doing music at school?
1. How much do you like doing technology at school?  61  56 31  40 6  4 2  0
2. How good do you think you are at technology compared to other subjects? 14  33 67  57 15  10 4  0
a most days more than once a week less than once a week hardly ever
3. How often do you use a computer at school? 23  16 24  45 24  27 29  12
4. How often do you use a computer when not at school? 38  26 16  29 10  18 36  27

What do you do in technology?
In a related question, students were asked what sorts of things their class did when they were doing technology at school. Their responses were categorised into eight categories and are summarized in the table at right.

The two strongest categories for Mäori students in general education were:

  • workshop subjects (47 percent of students);
  • making and designing (37 percent of students)

    The three strongest categories for Mäori immersion students were:
  • making and designing (70 percent of students)
  • learing about equipment (68 percent of students)
  • computers (46 percent of students)
Students in Mäori immersion programmes were more positive about how good they were at technology.
WHAT DO YOU DO IN TECHNOLOGY?
% responses
GEd MI
Computers 16 46
Making and designing 37 70
Learning about equipment 4 68
Science or Maths 14 3
Solving problems 1 0
Doing research 3 0
Workshop subjects 47 0
Other appropriate 23 27
Computer use
Smaller proportions used a computer “most days” at school or home, but a higher proportion used a computer more than once a week at school (see table at left).

Students were asked what sort of things they do when using the computer both at school and when not at school. The table below summarises the results, with the responses showing the percentages of computer use when not at school in the column ‘home’. For both Mäori students in general education and students in Mäori immersion programmes, playing games is the most popular use of the computer when not at school, with research the next most popular use.

For Mäori students in general education, playing games is also the most popular use of the computer at school. Other popular activities at school are publishing, research and computer skills.

When at school, the most popular activity for students in Mäori immersion programmes is computer skills. Other activities were about half as popular.

COMPUTER USE
% responses
GEd MI
School Home School Home
Publishing 34 11 13 7
Games 45 62 20 45
Research 29 29 18 27
Computer Skills 29 17 38 11
Drawing and pictures 7 7 18 13
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