1. Perceptions of Teacher Laptop Training Michael V. Weaver

2. 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.

3. 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)

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

5. 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

6. 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

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

8. 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 % 1 4.01140.113 4.01140.113 3.83138.312 2 1.51815.17655.2891.51815.17655.2891.61816.18354.495 3 1.15811.58166.8701.15811.58166.8701.23712.37566.870 4.8778.77175.641 5.6796.78582.426 6.6086.08088.507 7.4074.06892.575 8.3383.37695.950 9.2592.59498.545 10.1461.455100.000

9. Results Component 123 LT2.850.039.047 LT1.815.121.297 LT8.807-.205-.108 LT6.803.081-.234 LT10.671-.384.370 LT7.658-.328-.186 LT4.200.786-.124 LT5 -.222.695.143 LT3 LT9.352-.401.676.225-.189-.645

10. 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 % 1 3.86455.197 3.86455.197 3.08744.104 2 1.11415.91471.1121.11415.91471.1121.89127.00871.112 3.76310.90782.018 4.4336.18888.206 5.3945.62393.830 6767.2643.76997.599.1682.401100.000

11. Results ModelSum of SquaresdfMean SquareFSig. 1 Regression234.4341 11.014.003(a) Residual553.4242621.286 Total787.85727 ANOVA Summary Table for Linear Regression –Comparison of F1 and statement 10 –F1 = combination of statements 1 - 9

12. 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).298.2714.61362

13. Questions?