Participants were asked if they knew how the 1:1 laptop programs that they experienced in high school were evaluated for effectiveness. The responses to this question were less confident and more diverse than those given regarding why their high school adopted a 1:1 initiative. For instance, Participant 12 elaborated on his thoughts about how he believed a 1:1 program was evaluated by saying: Our school has always had good standardized testing scores. I think the evaluation of the initiative in the first two years was a drop in our standardized testing. The first-year we had it (laptop initiative) especially was just trial and error and trying to get things right. The head of academics, or whatever she is, came into classrooms, and I think a lot of time she would try to find out how effectively the computers were being used. I mean I think they were still determining the way to kind of evaluate us I guess.