Benefits of Wireless Technology

Assumptions

This study has four assumptions. First, teachers will gain the basic understanding of the benefits of wireless technology and take an intuitive to integrate it into their instructional practices. Second, the presented assessment is receptive enough to assess teachers’ technological attitudes. Third, the responses from the participating sample will be honest and accurate. Last, explore and, establish whether there is a need to offer advance technology training initiatives.

Limitations

The limitations are as follows: the amount of time available for the researcher to conduct this study. The other limitation is the researcher’s inability to assess the accurate amount of time teachers will spend using an online network. The next limitation is the location, a rural school system and not a suburban or urban school system. The XYZ system under review only has four schools. The final limitation is teachers’ use of available technology within their classroom due to possible technophobia, lack of training, and or skills. Therefore, based on the quantitative nature of the study, this investigation is better outfitted to present a wealthier account for teaching-learning with wireless laptops within K–12 classrooms, as opposed to a qualitative or mixed method investigation of the phenomenon (Leedy & Ormrod, 2010). However, the use of a self-reported questionnaire will also assume that participants provide truthful responses from a one-shot posttest (Leedy & Ormrod, 2010).

Scope

This study’s scope connects to the research question, “Do teachers' attitudes towards technology, including their eagerness and curiosity to use it in their teaching, impact the integration of wireless laptops into th...

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...rooms effectively. The purpose of this quantitative, pre-experimental study will investigate whether XYZ teachers are curious and eager to advance their technology skills. Advanced technology skills can provide additional teaching opportunities based on teachers’ self-reported responses.

In chapter 2, the literature from various scholars, books, articles and journals that provide the account of the problem and conceptual framework of this study will be reviewed. In chapter 3, the methodology of the research will be explained, including the design, sample, environment, instrumentation, data collection, treatment, data analysis, validity, reliability, and ethical considerations. In chapter 4, the study’s results will be presented. Finally, in chapter 5 the outcomes, implications for social change, and recommendations for future research will be discussed.