JOURNAL ARTICLE REVIEW TEMPLATE

North American University

Education Department
M.Ed. in Educational Leadership / M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction
EDUC 5324 Integrating Technology into Education

Name:Nivine Sharmand Date: June1st ,2017

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), 233250.
doi:10.1080/07380569.2014.932660

INTRODUCTION

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

To what extent does training on the use of iPad impact school administrators and
their professional tasks and duties.
To what extent does the training process impact administrators beliefs regarding
how teachers should use iPad in the classroom?
Is there any difference based on gender, age, years, of experience in school
administration or school size?

Purpose of the research:

There are many studies about iPad implementation in education, however there is no
sufficient study on how administrators use iPad for their professional and the potential
effects on their work-related tasks and personal organization. (Dogan, Almus, 2014)

This study discusses how affected can school administrators be when received training
on IPad and its applications.
METHODOLOGY

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

Participants: Elementary, middle, and high school administrators who work in a

big charter school system
Procedures: Selected administrators participated to pre-survey. Pre survey
collected demographic information of the participants such as age, years of the
experience as a school admin and years of the experience in education, and also
information such as how admins use their iPads for daily school tasks, what is
their beliefs on effectiveness of ipad for administrative tasks, and how teachers
should use iPad in the classroom. Participants answered the post survey
questions to measure their improvements in certain tasks after the training.
Training included the topics that are iPad skills and use certain workflow, note-
taking, calendar, productivity, file-sharing, remote-desktop, presentation, and
screen-sharing applications.

Data Collection Methods/Data Source:

Pre survey
Training session
On-going support
Post survey

Data Analysis:
t-test data analysis
ANOVA
SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences)

RESULTS

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

In this study school administrators had positive views regarding the potential of
iPads current and future use in the classroom by teachers. The training process
had a positive effect on the school administrators development of iPad skills and
knowledge. (Dogan, Almus, 2014).
School administrators in K5 reported their level of iPad skills and knowledge
higher than administrators of K8 and K12 schools. (Dogan, Almus, 2014).
Furthermore, administrators in K-12 schools reported significantly lower level of
iPad skills and knowledge than administrators of K-5 and K-8 schools. Further
research is required to understand the reasons behind this interesting finding.
(Dogan, Almus, 2014).
School admins used specific iPad applications for work-related purposes in this
study. (Dogan, Almus, 2014).
Also research says School administrators in this study reported valuing the
iPads mobility, the touchscreen, and the ability to use various application
features for workrelated purposes. Thus, iPads as mobile devices with
touchscreens may have the potential to help school administrators become more
visible. (Dogan, Almus, 2014).
After the training process, school administrators reported increases in their iPad
skills and knowledge. According to the results of the post-survey, nearly 80% of
school administrators considered their iPad skills and knowledge at the level of
 intermediate to advanced. Results also indicated that applications in the
educational category were the most used types of iPad applications, followed
by communication and books and reference prior to the training. (Dogan,
Almus, 2014)

DISCUSSIONS

Conclusions/Implications (for your profession):

How iPad training effects and improves school administrators iPad use in their
professional duties?
How school administrators use IPad on their daily school duties before the training?
What administrators think about IPad use in the classroom by teachers?
How school administrators used iPad and iPad applications in their professional
duties after training?
What are the beliefs of administrators on how teachers should use iPads in the
classroom?
As a conclusion, we can see the positive effect and improvement on IPad use of
school administrators before and after IPad an IPad apps training.
From my profession as a technology teacher in a middle school, I support using all
types of educational technology applications in the schools and classrooms for all
activities, duties, and tasks. Principals, assistant principals, teachers and students
should be able to benefit from Ipad applications as possible as to meet their
academic goals.

REFLECTIONS
Students Reflections (changes to your understanding; implications for your
school/work)
Technology and especially ipads are very effective tools in the learning process
and inside the classroom. It is a very interactive method between students and
teachers and a very helpful way in reaching every class and lesson objectives. We
as teachers still need many seminars and workshops that can enhance our skills
and use of new educational tools that can positively affect our students in their
skills. It proved to be really effective with many advantages even though many
claim that iPad have also a lot of disadvantages. But if we look at the results, the
improvement we touch and reach are way more than the disadvantages.