UNPROVEN INNOVATION: IPADS IN K-12 ENVIRONMENTS

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dc.contributor.advisorDavis, Thomas Een_US
dc.contributor.authorRobinson, Meri Elizabethen_US
dc.contributor.departmentEducation Policy, and Leadershipen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-22T05:41:28Z
dc.date.available2016-06-22T05:41:28Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractNationally, the education sector spends more than 5 billion dollars annually on digital tools, “yet seldom are technology solutions factored into any viable equation for improving student academic achievement” (Moersch, 2014, p. ix). Consider the following case in point: In July 2014, Apple announced that in just 3 years, the company had sold more than13 million iPads to educational institutions worldwide (Cavanagh, 2014). Put into perspective, that represents more than 5.2 billion dollars spent by the education industry to purchase iPads, which is the equivalent of the annual salaries of 89,655 teachers (“High School Teacher: Salary,” 2014). Despite such vast expenditures, there have been very few attempts to evaluate the efficacy of these digital tools on improving academic achievement. This research involved a quantitative data review of participant (student and teacher) survey data to explore one of the country’s largest K-12 iPad implementation undertakings in an effort to identify (a) best practices and (b) lessons learned from implementing the iPad into K-12 educational environments. It should be noted that the school system forming the basis of this research already had administered and collated the surveys used in this study.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2SV1S
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/18177
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEducational technologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEducational leadershipen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEducational evaluationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolled21st-century skillsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrollededucational technologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrollediPadsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledlearning environmentsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledlevels of technology integrationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledstudent engagementen_US
dc.titleUNPROVEN INNOVATION: IPADS IN K-12 ENVIRONMENTSen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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