JOURNAL ARTICLE REVIEW TEMPLATE

North American University

Education Department
M.Ed. in Educational Leadership / M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction
EDUC 5324 Integrating Technology into Education
Name:__________muhammad jamil_________________
2016___________________________

Date: 11-19-

Cite the reviewed article in APA format:

Waxman, H., Boriack, A., Yuan-Hsuan, L., & MacNeil, A. (2013). Principals' Perceptions
of the Importance of Technology in Schools. Contemporary Educational Technology,
4(3), 187-196.
INTRODUCTION
Research Questions (if research questions are not specifically mentioned, what is
the theoretical background or overarching theme)
its was discussed that how can be a successful princiapl of a successful school
and how can you motived teachers and students towards new technology.:so
research focused on charachetr of a principal,and its expalins how can principal
plays a major role in this regard.also its shown that technolgy there in school but
there is lack of knowledge among teachers and students.principle and teachers
must work together to have advanced techonolgy in school to provide better skills
to students.so principal plays important role in this.foe example baylor and ritchie
(2002)found several fectors related to school technology,they found that student
content acquistition was influnced in various ways by strong technolgy
leadership.there are other examples as well like of isabelle and lapointe who says
same thing.most cases researchers agree that technology in school will affect
positively role of both teachers and principal and this way we can have better
standared of education in our school in future.

Purpose of the research:

purpose behind this was obvious that how principal change the whole enviroment
of school by introducing new technology in schools and courge teachers and
students to stick together to obtain new knowledge through this technology.

METHODOLOGY

What is the methodology for the research or approach used to understand the
issue? Provide information regarding the following:

Participants:810 principals
Procedures:students were trained on how to adminster the instrument and
required to interview specific number of current public school principal.
Data Collection Methods/Data Source:data collected from interview used
.questions were"has technology had an impact in your school and if so
what specific ways has it made differnce.
Data Analysis:participants responses were read several time to become
familar with data.this data coded into meaninging ful categories,Once the
categories were established, another researcher independently
coded a 10% sample of responses to determine the consistency of the
coding. The inter-coder
reliability results revealed a high level of agreement (Cohens kappa = .94).

RESULTS
Findings or Results (or main points of the article): response of principal were
grouped into five categories.35%says technology used as primary communication
tool.28% agreed that technology was integrated in teachers classrooms
instructions.14% were using technology for data sharing and
management.15%was using technology as resource to find information.10%
conclusion was,technology can also used for task like attendence.10% felt that
technology was used for student learning.Males and females differed in their
perceptions of the other four categories. In order of decreasing
percentage for males the last four categories were using technology: as a
resource (16%), for data
sharing and management (15%), for administrative tasks (12%), and for student
learning (10%).
The percentages for females in decreasing order were using technology: for data
sharing and
management (15%), as a resource (14%), for student learning (12%), and for
administrative tasks
(9%).
Finally, principals perceptions of the major functions of technology were
examined by years of

experience: 0-3 years, 4-7 years, 8-11 years, 12-15 years, and more than 15 years.
The two major
functions of technology with the highest percentage were communication and
instruction. The
highest percentage for principals with 0-3, 4-7, and 8-11 years of experience was
in
communication (39%, 33%, and 31%, respectively) followed by instruction (24%,
30%, and 24%,
respectively). Principals with 12-15 and more than 15 years of experience had the
highest
percentage in instruction (31% and 39%, respectively) followed by communication
(28% and 36%,
respectively)

DISCUSSIONS
Conclusions/Implications (for your profession):as society increase as we must
also need to move with all aspects specially in technology.as we introduce more
of it as we have more development in our education sysytem.school must be keep
update with nw and advanced technology.teachers must have knowledge how to
use it.present study suggest that principals view twchnology as important for
carring out communicatiobs and instructions,so with this invention of new
technology principal must have the knowledge and must introduce into schools
for students bright future.
REFLECTIONS
Students Reflections (changes to your understanding; implications for your
school/work):
i think every one has the same opinion that our schools must be equipt with
modern rechnology whatever shape it has but it must be used in our school.i
totally agree that without bringing new technology in to our school we can not
achieve our goals and students will be deprive from advanced information and
knowledge,so as new technology invents and we think its benificial our school
system so we must not be late to bring it in our schools to have a great education
system.