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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a math teacher, I suspect, or at least hope, you took some statistics classes in college. And if so, I imagine one of those classes at least touched on the topic of sampling bias.  I'm sure you see where I'm going with this.

Why should anyone look at your survey results in light of MCPS's district-wide usage data?

Don't get me wrong- I don't see how you could have Chromebooks in class without something like GoGuardian, but clearly many, many teachers were doing just that. Or you're going to want to address that discrepancy with the Board when describing your survey responses.[/quote]

Not the OP. The county data at high altitude suggests that usage is probably partly school-dependent (meaning that some individual schools are heavy users compared to others) and also partly level-related (more frequently used with older students).  Neither of those points is especially surprising.  Do you really need GoGuardian to watch the computer behaviors of first graders, for example?  But if I taught middle school, I would sure as heck want it.  There is admittedly going to be inherent bias in the survey because of who is going to speak up in favor of the resource, but if the survey results can be broken down by grade level usage, it might help the case that the OP and others are making.

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