JOURNAL ARTICLE REVIEW TEMPLATE

North American University

Education Department
M.Ed. in Educational Leadership and M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction
EDUC 5324 INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY INTO EDUCATION
TO Dr. Dogan
Question : Technology for school administrative and teachers

Name: Bekir Inalhan

Date: 7/8/2015

Cite the reviewed article in APA format:

Bulent Dogan & Kadir Almus (2014) School Administrators Use of iPads: Impact of
Training and Attitudes Toward School Use, Computers in the Schools: Interdisciplinary
Journal of Practice, Theory, and Applied Research, 31:3, 233-250, DOI:
10.1080/07380569.2014.932660

INTRODUCTION
Research Questions (if research questions are not specifically mentioned, what is the
theoretical background or overarching theme):

The article was conducted to focus on school administrators use of iPads for school
administrative tasks and personal organization in their professional duties and make
research on the school administrator to see how often do they use iPad for their duties and
how much do they know how to use this technology. The participants consisted of the 51
elementary and secondary school administrator been chosen from largest public school
system in southwestern state. Administrator responded questionnaire that addressed
school administrates perception related to the major function of technology (iPad) during
their duties. This article make sense to us, using technology as like iPad reduce your
work effort during your school duties and also this encourage administrator to requested
teacher to use in classroom

Purpose of the research:

This researchs purpose is figure out what is impact of the training process of school
administrators use iPad for administrative tasks and personal organization in their
professional duties and do they beliefs regarding how teacher should use iPad in the
classroom? Do administrators perception of the technology differ by years of experience,
gender, age, highest degree attained, school classification, and school size?

METHODOLOGY
What is the methodology for the research or approach used to understand the issue?
Provide information regarding the following:

Participants: 51 elementary and secondary school administrators

Procedures: 51 subject were selected on the differ survey and were being asked
participants on the 2 different survey that one of them post-survey other one is presurvey. 120 participants took post-survey but only 51 one them owned iPad volunteered
to complete the pre survey that 58.8% (n=30) of the participants were male, 41.2%
(n=21) of them were female. Also 37 of pre- survey respondents completed the post
survey, yielding a response rate of 72.55%. 21 (56.76%) respondents in post survey were
male, and 16 (43.24%) were female. The administrators responses for the major function
of the survey were categorize into five main group: school administrators use of iPad and
iPad application, they beliefs regarding how teachers should use iPad in the classroom,
differences in participants responses by their demographic and contextual data (gender,
age, years of experience in school administration and education highest attained), school

classification and school size, and evaluation.

Data Collection Methods/Data Source: Demographic and Contextual Data

Data Analysis:
According to data analysis of the demographic and contextual data for survey participants
were conducted and age of survey participants were 34.16 years, the average years of the
experience in education was 8.45, the average years of experience in school administrator
was 2.04, and the average school size of participants was 618.50. End of the survey all
participant in this survey was owned an iPad that 27.45 % of participants purchased their
own iPads and the majority of the iPads 72.55% were given to school administrator by
their school district.
All participants used those program;
Microsoft Windows Vista= 52.94%
iOS= 37.25%
OS= 1.96%
Other= 7.84%
The Major of the participants classified;
K-12= 62.75% elementary, middle, and high school
K-8= 19.61% elementary and middle
6-12= 9.80 middle and high school
K-5= 7.84% elementary school
Highest level of education do they had attained;

Bachler = 50.98%
Master = 49.02%

RESULTS
Findings or Results (or main points of the article):

The article show that participants answer about feature of the their iPad experience was
most of them selected response with 21.43%, follow by touchscreen 20.88%,being able to
use various application 15.93% compact and light 10.44% camcorder feature 7.69%. And
their level on the iPad after iPad training was intermediate 70.27%, advance 10.82%,
beginner 18.92% that this training process had a positive effect on the development of
iPad skills and knowledge. 23.84% percent of the participants believe that iPad for workrelated purpose indicated that education was the model response and other participants
were answer for this questions were communication and book and reference
application both 11.92%, all participants in both pre-survey 98.04% and post-survey
97.30% stated that they would like to see their teachers using iPads for teaching in the
classroom. Also 76.47% of pre-survey and 86.49% of post-survey of the participants was
believed computers used in courses would be replaced by iPads. Using iPad for class
communication;
e-mail, messaging, contacting parents, etc:11.59% vs 13.22%
make specific application (created by the teacher); 10.30% vs 12.07%

created by others;15.88% vs 16.67%

projecting/streaming/lesson presentation to the iPad;17.60% vs 18.39%

DISCUSSIONS
Conclusions/ (for your profession):

According to this survey we realize that administrator perception are usually inspire the
staff about almost everything so it is a key using iPad technology in classroom and
professional administrator duties because this survey- based quantitative study
investigated the impact of the receiving iPad training on school administrators attitudes
toward iPad use their professional duties and in their classroom because using
technology always help to teacher and administrator to reduce human effort on their
work. Other hand when think about the past teacher spent more time to prepared lesson
plan or show some picture or video to more make sense to students but nowadays it is
very easier to access to from you iPad to you laptop or projector to show whatever you
want to show students, e- mail to parent, take note, lecture on iPad, etc.

REFLECTIONS
Students Reflections (changes to your understanding; implications for your
school/work):

By looking at data results, most of the administrator after taking iPad training they
believed that iPad were effective tool for administrative tasks and personal organization.
Also they satisfied on training process that they were agreement with this idea after
completing training process. In addition they strongly believed that this need be use by
their teacher in classroom. Also school administrator use iPad for administrative tasks,

task delegation, calendar, document sharing, researching through internet, using

application for their work, etc. Some thing we can for teacher and also they will use iPad
instead of the use smartboard or using laptop because there is application which they are
calling DOCERI it is very useful application for teacher to use in classroom.
Technology is very effective tools recently and many people using their smart phone to
take their babies attention to make them quite and this way is working. So either babies
are growing with technology that we should be ready to use technology.