Bridging the Digital Divide among Public High School Teachers: An Adopt-a-school Experience

This study evaluated the iSchools Project implementation in the public high schools in the Province of Tarlac, Philippines. It is a development project of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) that supports the effort of the department of education in promoting ICT in education. Its goal is to bridge the digital divide among public high school teachers and students by providing ICT literacy through access to digital applications in education. The component of the project includes provision of ICT equipment, capability building and strengthened local support. This paper also determines the problems encountered by the public high schools in the implementation of the project. This study made use of the CIPP model developed by Donald Stufflebeam. The CIPP stands for the core concepts of the model: Context Evaluation, Input Evaluation, Process Evaluation and Product Evaluation. The respondents were the teachers under the adopt-a-school program of the Tarlac College of Agriculture (TCA) who were recipient of the project. Survey questionnaires supplemented with interview and observation were used in the gathering of data. The data gathered were tabulated, organized, analyzed and interpreted using appropriate statistical tools. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.