Domains and levels of pedagogical innovation in schools using ICT: Ten innovative schools in Israel

The study reported here is based on the results of two international studies: IEA’s Second Information Technology
in Education Study (SITES) Module 2, focusing on innovative pedagogical practices at the classroom level, and
OECD/CERI Case Studies of ICT and Organizational Innovation, focusing on ICT related innovations at the
school system level. In the paper we analyze the data collected in ten innovative schools in Israel which have
incorporated ICT in unique ways and have succeeded in devising innovative classroom pedagogies and school
system changes. The major research questions addressed are: (a) What levels of innovation were observed in the
participant schools, and in which domains? (b) How does the level of innovation in the various domains vary
among and within schools? (c) What correlation patterns among levels of innovation in the various domains can
be identified? The results of ten comprehensive case studies of exemplary schools in Israel were analyzed by
mean of the innovation analysis schema developed by us for characterizing ICT-based educational innovations