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IMPACT

Developed by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, the IMPACT model for North Carolina schools focuses on enhancing teaching and learning through supporting the integration of media and technology into classrooms around the state. School library media and instructional technology programs are key to making education relevant. IMPACT provides the necessary personnel, resources, access, professional development, and student instruction to produce technologically literate students by the 8th grade. Over the course of the study, researchers at the Friday Institute will gather comprehensive data on student, teacher, and school outcomes in order to assess the effect of the IMPACT model. Since the project’s inception, 11 North Carolina schools have implemented the IMPACT model.

Principle Investigators: Jason Osborne and Ellen Vasu
Homepage: http://ced.ncsu.edu/impact/