Perceptions of Teacher Laptop Training Michael V. Weaver

About Participants volunteered to answer 10 statements using a 5 point Likert scale about perceived effectiveness of laptop training. All participants were faculty and administration that have taken part in the first year of a 1:1 laptop immersion program.

Reasoning Training is key in laptop initiatives –Teachers must know how to integrate, not just ‘use’ technology. Very little research done on training. Most done on effectiveness of program (overall end results)

Process Step 1: Create instrument –Could not find an existing instrument –Try to keep statements focused Step 2: Administer survey –Used surveymonkey.com –Sent to all possible participants –Left survey open for 2 weeks

Process Step 3: Collect data –Very easily done with surveymonkey Step 4: Organize data –Started with Excel –Scaled items according to responses –Imported items into SPSS Step 5: Run data in SPSS

Results Reliability –1 st analysis yielded a Cronbach’s alpha of.721 –‘Respectable’ according to the DeVillis Scale –Reviewed the Item-Total Statistics Recomputed three times Ended up with 7 items and an alpha of.856 = ‘Very Good’ on DeVillis Scale

Results Factor Analysis –Done to reaffirm reliability. 2 analyses run –First on original data –Second on data with statements 4, 5, and 9 removed

Results Component Initial Eigenvalues Extraction Sums of Squared Loadings Rotation Sums of Squared Loadings Total % of Variance Cumulative %Total % of Variance Cumulative %Total % of VarianceCumulative %

Results Component 123 LT LT LT LT LT LT LT LT LT3 LT

Results ComponentInitial Eigenvalues Extraction Sums of Squared Loadings Rotation Sums of Squared Loadings Total % of Variance Cumulative %Total % of Variance Cumulative %Total % of Variance Cumulative %

Results ModelSum of SquaresdfMean SquareFSig. 1 Regression (a) Residual Total ANOVA Summary Table for Linear Regression –Comparison of F1 and statement 10 –F1 = combination of statements 1 - 9

Results The resulting R-Square is.298. –F1 accounts for 29.8% of the responses to statement 10. ModelRR SquareAdjusted R Square Std. Error of the Estimate 1545(a)

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