Principals' Perceptions of the Importance of Technology in Schools

Waxman, Hersholt C.; Boriack, Anna Witt; Lee, Yuan‐Hsuan; MacNeil, Angus

doi:10.30935/cedtech/6102

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“…A study by Alkrdem (2014) showed that the technological leadership behavior of “headteachers” did not differ with respect to their gender in Saudi Arabia; however, according to Banoglu (2011), female technology leaders were more effective compared with male technology leaders in Turkey. In addition to these findings, Waxman et al (2013) stated that gender influences how leaders perceive the functions of technology in their schools in the United States. In Malaysia, previous research has shown that the gender of school leaders did not have significant influence on technology leadership (Hamzah et al, 2010).…”

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confidence: 96%

Importance of Technology Leadership for Technology Integration: Gender and Professional Development Perspective

Raman

Thannimalai

2019

Sage Open

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Technology leadership is being redesigned to accelerate technology integration in schools to develop and sustain the skills needed to produce skilled manpower. Previous studies showed that the factors that prevented leaders and teachers from integrating information and communication technologies (ICT) in schools are lack of ICT training, teacher ICT competency, and access to ICT resources. This shows that there is a gap in technology integration in schools. This study aims to identify the importance of technology leadership for technology integration based on gender and professional development. This is a quantitative study using cross-sectional design. A total of 90 respondents were selected by systematic random sampling from 190 national secondary schools. The importance and performance matrix analysis revealed that professional development had high performance and was an important variable in the prediction of teachers’ technology integration, but gender was not. Thus, school management should give priority to digital age learning culture and digital citizenship constructs to accelerate teachers’ technology integration in schools.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 96%

Importance of Technology Leadership for Technology Integration: Gender and Professional Development Perspective

Raman

Thannimalai

2019

Sage Open

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“…Before the pandemic, the principals' roles and leaderships are often researched to ensure and improve the integration of ICT into classrooms. It was often found that positive attitude of the principals towards ICT would positively impact the support given to the teachers in using the ICT (Mulwa & Kyalo, 2013;Neyland, 2011;Polizzi, 2011), the effectiveness of the implementation (Fessehatsion, 2017;Waxman et al, 2013) and the teachers' belief (Alghamdi & Prestridge, 2015). For example, a study conducted by Serhan (2007) on 200 principals in Arab countries suggests that principals have a willingness to apply technology.…”

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Online Learning Management in the Era of Covid-19 Pandemic at Junior High Schools in Indonesia

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Aim/Purpose: The purposes of this research are to analyze online learning management activities conducted by the principals of junior high schools in Indonesia in facing COVID-19 as well as to discuss their perspective and expectations towards online learning activities when facing COVID-19 and after COVID-19 has passed. Background: Due to the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Indonesian Minister of Education and Culture instructed that teaching and learning activities for all levels of education in Indonesia must be carried out online from home. There have been comprehensive reports about the various forms of online learning, its effects on students, the challenges, the learning transition from offline to online, and teachers’ views on this new approach. Very few, if any, focus on how principals act upon the transition during this COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, this research focuses on how principals overcome various problems that arise in the implementation of online learning activities. Methodology: As many as 309 principals of junior high school from twelve districts in Indonesia were asked to give their responses to a set of questionnaires. The reliability of the questionnaire was analyzed using Cronbach’s Alpha with the help of SmartPLS 3.0 software. The percentage was mainly used in the descriptive analysis. To obtain the influence among variables, the statistical inferential analysis was used. Contribution: Although the sample size of this research is limited, the results may contribute to the existing theory and practice related to the implementation of online learning in Indonesia. The findings of this research could be a guide for principals to manage online learning in the future. Findings: The data analysis showed that the constructs of organizing and monitoring-evaluation were found to play an important role as a mediator between the variables of planning with implementation of principal management in online learning. Path analysis demonstrated that the implementation variable was significantly influenced by the variables of planning, organizing and monitoring-evaluation, with a contribution value of 78.20%. Thus, it indicated that the planning, organizing and monitoring-evaluation variables contributed directly or indirectly to the implementation of principal management in online learning. Generally, the online learning management activities conducted by the principals of junior high schools in Indonesia have been carried out well, especially in the Implementing aspect. However, the aspects of Planning, as well as Monitoring and Evaluation, still need to be improved. Recommendations for Practitioners: The government is recommended to provide adequate online learning supporting facilities as well as to facilitate teachers to increase insight and knowledge in terms of technology use, especially in designing, implementing, and providing assessments of online learning. So far, the government has provided some facilities and conveniences to principals and teachers. However, some information and ICT related trainings from the government during the COVID-19 pandemic is not widely known by the principals and the teachers. Socialization about these is needed. Recommendation for Researchers: This work offers a theoretical understanding of the problems faced by school principals in facing COVID-19. Further research on how principals and teachers manage online learning activities needs to be carried out to solve various problems which might arise during the process of implementation. Impact on Society: This research suggests that the principals in Indonesia have good online learning management. However, to reach the stated learning objectives efficiently and effectively, the principals need to collaborate with the teachers as the main facilitators of the teaching and learning process. Cooperation with parents is also highly recommended. Future Research: Further research should focus on how the application of online learning can improve students’ achievement through good management and collaboration with teachers, other administration staff at schools, and parents.

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“…Instructional leaders will cultivate structure alignment and cohesive groups by training, modeling, and structuring however digital tools are used, together with an LMS. The results from this study and therefore the existing literature [84,85] counsel that directors will remodel the attitudes of lecturers after they model the utilization of technology and an LMS. A study conducted by Sun et al [86] found a correlation between teachers' attitudes toward technology and learners' satisfaction of instruction.…”

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confidence: 66%

Application of Learning Management System (LMS) during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Sustainable Acceptance Model of the Expansion Technology Approach

Alturki

Aldraiweesh

2021

Sustainability

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The COVID-19 pandemic led to the closure of universities and colleges throughout the world, with the hope that public health officials’ suggestion of social distancing would help flatten the sickness curve and reduce overall mortality from the outbreak. However, the Learning Management System (LMS) is the perfect approach for fostering the dedication of students to content in education like sustainability. Previous studies have seldom investigated an integrated approach in the context of LMS in industrialized nations. In addition, this paper aims to include a literature analysis of recent research conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic in the area of LMS usage, as well as to investigate variables predicting the usage of LMS by higher education students during the COVID-19 pandemic for students’ engagement. On the basis of LMS usage data obtained from an online survey, structural equation modeling (SEM) and route analysis were utilized to verify the research model, a survey consisting of student LMS users King Saud University. The findings showed that the desire of students to use LMS had beneficial effects during the COVID-19 pandemic on learning as sustainability engagement. Also, student-perceived closeness, peer references and subjective well-being are favorably associated with the perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness, this, in turn, influences students’ intentions to utilize, which, in turn, effects the usage of LMS for student engagement during COVID-19.

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Principals' Perceptions of the Importance of Technology in Schools

Cited by 15 publications

References 13 publications

Importance of Technology Leadership for Technology Integration: Gender and Professional Development Perspective

Importance of Technology Leadership for Technology Integration: Gender and Professional Development Perspective

Online Learning Management in the Era of Covid-19 Pandemic at Junior High Schools in Indonesia

Application of Learning Management System (LMS) during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Sustainable Acceptance Model of the Expansion Technology Approach

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