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Factors Influencing The Level Of Technology Adaptation By Middle-School Teachers, Janice Favre Strigh
Factors Influencing The Level Of Technology Adaptation By Middle-School Teachers, Janice Favre Strigh
Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine those factors influencing a teacher’s level of adaptation to a one-to-one laptop program in a middle-school setting. The school chosen for this study is located in a semi-rural district with approximately 500 students in sixth through eighth grade. Over the past 10 years, the school district has implemented a one-to-one laptop program with students currently having access to their own personal computer each day. Collins’s (2007) technology, leadership management, and policy pyramid model provided a framework for this analysis. Teachers’ perceptions of leadership support for the planning activities, organizational integration …