ABSTRACT
The comprehensive school at which the author worked in West Yorkshire served the communities to the north east of Leeds. From the outset of the Computers in Schools initiative in 1983/84 the school had developed an information technology (IT) policy based on a number of stand-alone machines. By 1987 a classroom had been networked with Acorn Master 128 computers. The school had made a significant investment in IT over a period of ten years, with some staff committed to innovative uses. In the Spring term of 1995 the first survey of home computer ownership and use among the students was undertaken. Students in every tutor group were asked to indicate their access to, and use of, computers at home and school. The survey was repeated a year later, in Spring 1996, to determine whether any trends could be identified. The results were compared with those of Spring 1995, with a specific focus on Intel/Windows-based machines.
