K-12 Web Crawling: A Novel Approach to Understanding Statewide Patterns of Adoption

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Short Description

This study utilizes web crawling as a novel approach to data collection and analysis on K-12 school website usage and summarizes findings of school web system adoption from an entire state (n = 732 schools). Findings include rates of adoption of generic versus education-specific systems and no cost versus purchased systems. Implications for decision makers and researchers include feasibility of web crawling as an informative data collection mechanism and top-down approaches to web-system adoption.

Author

• Royce Kimmons, University of Idaho