JOURNAL ARTICLE REVIEW

North American University

Education Department
M.Ed. in Educational Leadership
EDUC 5324 Integrating Technology into Education
Name: Abdurrahman Cetin

Date: 6/4/2016

Cite the reviewed article in APA format:

Dogan, B., & Almus, K. (2014). School Administrators Use of iPads: Impact of Training and
Attitudes Toward School Use. Computers In The Schools, 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):
1. What is the impact of the training process on school administrators use of iPads for
administrative tasks and personal organization in their professional duties?
2. What is the impact of the training process on school administrators beliefs regarding how
teachers should use iPads in the classroom?
3. Are there any differences in school administrators survey responses based on gender,
age, years of experience in school administration and education, highest degree attained,
school classification, or school size?

Purpose of the research:

The purpose of this study was determining how school administrators use iPads for their
professional duties and the potential effects on their work-related tasks and personal
organization, and their beliefs about the effectiveness of iPads for administrative tasks and
regarding how teachers should use iPads in the classroom.
Furthermore, this study aimed to examine the impact of receiving specific iPad training on school
administrators attitudes toward iPad use and their beliefs.
Study also wants to demonstrate whether there were any differences in school administrators
responses to above issues by gender, age, years of experience in school administration and
education, 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:

The target population for the study was elementary and secondary school administrators
working in one of the largest public charter school systems in a southwestern state where
iPads were provided to its administrators for managerial duties
51 subjects were selected through a purposive sampling from the target population who
owned iPads
58.8% (n = 30) of the participants were male, 41.2% (n = 21) of the participants were
female

Procedures:

Study components included a pre-survey, a training session, and a post-survey

Participants in this study were contacted by email through the school systems central
office, after securing approvals from the school district and the university
Participants were asked to complete consent forms prior to the study as required by the
school district and the universitys Institutional Review Board (IRB)
The study was conducted February through May 2013
51 participants volunteered to complete the pre-survey out of approximately 120 school
administrators in the school system.
37 of pre-survey respondents completed the post-survey, yielding a response rate of
72.55%
Training was designed based on feedback from participants and delivered through an
interactive webinar session.
Additional resources reinforcing the topics covered in the initial training session were
provided later to school administrators in the form of video and written tutorials for their
convenience.
Technical support regarding the training topics and study was available to participants on
an ongoing basis. Researchers provided technical support to school administrators via email and telephone.

Data Collection Methods/Data Source:

Pre-survey and post-survey which were administered online through the survey
submission system hosted at the universitys server
Survey instruments included multiple choice and Likert-type scale items.
Both instruments were reviewed for face validity by two education faculty members and
then were piloted using a group of school administrators in a local school district. Surveys
were finalized after the feedback on the pilot versions.

Data Analysis:

The survey responses were reported as frequencies.

In addition, paired sample t-test data analysis was conducted to understand the
differences in the responses between the pre- and post-surveys.
A one-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) test was conducted to see whether 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.
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 data analysis of this study is categorized into five main groups;

1. Demographic and Contextual Data

Participants'
age of school administrators
years of experience in education
years of experience as a school administrator
school size of participants

Average
34.16
8.45
2.04
618.5

Participants
owned iPads
their own iPad
given iPad by school
use Windows
use iPhone
use Android
use Blackberry
use other

Percentage
100.00%
27.45%
72.55%
100.00%
52.94%
37.25%
1.96%
7.84%

Participants' schools
K-12
K-8
6-12
K-5

Percentage
62.75%
19.61%
9.80%
7.84%

According to the results, 50.98% of school administrators held a bachelors degree and 49.02%
held a masters degree.

2. Impact of Training: Use of iPads for Administrative Tasks and Organization

in Professional Duties

3. Impact of Training on School Administrators Beliefs Regarding How

Teachers Should Use iPads in the Classroom
Teachers should
use iPad for class communication
make specific application with iPad
use specific applications in iPad
project/stream lessons/presentation to the iPad
require creative assignments involving iPad use
reference/share a specific content item in iPad
encourage taking notes with iPad

Percentages
Pre-survey Post-survey
11.59%
13.22%
10.30%
12.07%
15.88%
16.67%
17.60%
18.39%
18.88%
16.67%
17.17%
14.94%
8.15%
8.05%

4. Differences in Participants Responses by Their Demographic and

Contextual Data

5. Evaluation of Training Process

School administrators were further solicited to evaluate the training process that they participated
in during the study. A majority (81.08%) responded that they would like to continue receiving
training and resources on the use of iPads for administrative tasks and teaching. Furthermore,
48.65% of participants found the training session and the resources provided afterward very
useful, followed by 43.24% finding them useful, and 8.11% finding them somewhat useful.

DISCUSSIONS
Conclusions/Implications (for your profession):
In order for school administrators to be successful in using iPads for professional duties,
especially for administrative tasks and personal organization, sufficient and ongoing training is
recommended. As school administrators are seen as both the instructional and technological
leaders of their schools, receiving appropriate training would not only allow them to be efficient in
performing work-related tasks but also positively effect the successful implementation of iPads by
teachers and students.
This study suggests that school administrators had positive views regarding the potential of iPad
current and future use in the classroom by teachers.
Age, years of experience in school administration and in education, highest degree earned,
school size, or gender do not affect school administrators opinions about the items in this study.

REFLECTIONS
Students Reflections (changes to your understanding; implications for your
school/work):
I always believe that using modern technology is an essential part of education. I decided to
review my priority list about implementing technology at schools after I read this study. School
managers should make investments on training teachers on the effective use of technology as
much as on purchasing fancy technological tools such as iPads, smart boards, laptops, and
school information system software. More importantly, school administrators are important part of
the process in teachers integration of technology and desire ongoing training and resources to
become technology leaders in their schools. We should update our policies, procedures,
handbooks, staff job descriptions for entire school accordingly.