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JOURNAL ARTICLE REVIEW TEMPLATENorth American UniversityEducation DepartmentM.Ed. in Educational LeadershipEDUC 5321: TECHNOLOGY FOR SCHOOL PRINCIPALSName: Aysun Coban Date: 11/08/2014Cite 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:10.1080/07380569.2014.932660INTRODUCTIONResearch Questions (if research questions are not specifically mentioned, what is the theoretical background or overarching theme):What is the impact of the training process on school administrators’ use of ipads for administrative tasks and personal organization in their professional duties?What is the impact of the training process on school administrators’ beliefs regarding how teachers should use IPads in the classroom?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: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) The study examines that if school administrators receive training about IPad and its applications how their IPad use will be affected. METHODOLOGYWhat 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 surveyTraining sessionOn-going supportPost surveyData Analysis:t-test data analysis ANOVA SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences)RESULTSFindings 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 K–5 reported their level of iPad skills and knowledge higher than administrators of K–8 and K–12 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).DISCUSSIONSConclusions/Implications (for your profession):This study examines;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. REFLECTIONSStudent’s Reflections (changes to your understanding; implications for your school/work): IPads are devices that are very effective learning tools for both school administrators and teachers in education. IPads’ features provide fully interactive and engaging teaching and learning opportunities for educators. We can use IPad every day for varied needs, however when we have chance to attend seminars, webinars or any other training to examine many different educational and administrative tools, definitely they will improve our skills and implications of IPad in our profession. Even though some people support that using IPad provides limited advantages in education, IPads effect students learning tremendously. We can gain many practical and usable ideas for using IPad in the classroom to increase our students’ learning skills and achievements. ................
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