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Date:_6/3/2016_____________________
Participants:
Subjects were recruited from elementary and secondary school administrators (
principals and assistant principals) in one of the largest public charter school
systems in a southwestern state. The numbers of participants were 51.
Procedures:
Participants were conducted by email, and asked to complete consent form for
this study. Then they are given a pre survey which is about a training session on
the effective use of iPads for administrative tasks and personal organization,
specially designed resources expanding the topics covered in the training
session, on-going support, and a post-survey. At the end a post survey are given
to participants. This post survey was about questions intended to measure selfreported improvements in certain tasks after completing the training, as well as
items regarding the evaluation of training session and resources provided to
school administrators during the study.
Data Collection Methods/Data Source:
Web based questionnaires. In this study, online surveys are used by participants.
Data Analysis:
Paired sample t-test data analysis was used for this study to see the difference
between pre and post surveys. A one-way Analysis of Variance(ANOVA) test was
also used to see if there were any differences in school administrators
responses by gender, age, years of experience in school administration and
education, highest degree attained, school classification, and school size. And
also, Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software was used to
conduct the data analysis.
RESULTS
Findings or Results (or main points of the article):
The paired sample t-test showed that the mean score on the post-survey was
4.27 and the mean score on the pre-survey was 3.73. The mean score on the
post-survey was significantly greater than the mean score on the pre-survey.
These results show that the overall training process in this study had a
statistically significant effect on participants beliefs about the effectiveness of
iPads as a tool for administrative tasks and personal organization. There were no
significant differences when it is used to see difference between in school
administrators responses by gender, age, years of experience in school
administration and education, highest degree attained, school classification, and
school size.
DISCUSSIONS