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Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology Dissertations

2007

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Beliefs About Technology Integration Support Factors Held By School Leadership And School Faculty: A Mixed Methods Study, Katherine Williams Feb 2007

Beliefs About Technology Integration Support Factors Held By School Leadership And School Faculty: A Mixed Methods Study, Katherine Williams

Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology Dissertations

Teachers’ beliefs have been identified as a barrier to classroom technology integration. School leadership support that reduces or removes integration barriers can assist teachers in the move from traditional teaching beliefs and practices towards successful classroom technology integration. This mixed methods study investigated beliefs of school leaders and teacher participants concerning support factors that affect technology integration from a mid-sized suburban public school system in the southeastern United States. The quantitative phase of this study included 556 school leaders and teachers. The quantitative survey Beliefs about Teaching with Technology (BATT) measured the school leaders and teachers’ beliefs concerning support factors …