Chapter Iii - Sample Using Clsu Format
Chapter Iii - Sample Using Clsu Format
This part of the study presented the theoretical and conceptual framework of the
and effectiveness of teachers and schools. It was the assumption that the use of this
available technology would make students successful when taking the PARCC
Assessment. Of particular interest here is the type of instructional technology the teachers
use in a given school and the amount of time dedicated in using these technology, and its
relationship to the previous year’s Math Scores of current 5th Grade students in the
PARCC Assessment.
This study will be anchored on the Unified Theory Of Acceptance And Use Of
integration into the classrooms has almost become one of the most rated topics to discuss
after the introduction of the technology to the classrooms. In 2003, Venkatesh, Morris,
Davis and Davis created the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology. This
create their model. Gender, age, experience, and voluntariness of use were added to the
model and were hypothesized to moderate the effect of four constructs such as
predictor of technology use (Venkatesh, Morris, Davis & Davis, 2003). Self-efficacy and
anxiety were determined by Venkatesh, Morris, Davis & Davis (2003) to be indirect
determinants, and therefore unnecessary in the model. In this model, the UTAUT
expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence and facilitating conditions. These are
demographic characteristics.
expectancy, EE for effort expectancy, SI for social influence (SI), and FC for facilitating
that using an instructional technology system will help students to attain benefits in
useful because it enables them to accomplish learning activities more quickly and
ease associated with the use of instructional technology (Teo&Noyes, 2011). Based on
the UTAUT, use of technology among educational users will depend on whether or not
the technology is easy to use, and the influence of EE on behavioral intention will be
moderated by gender and age such that the effect will be stronger for women, particularly
for older women (Venkatesh, Morris, Davis & Davis, 2003). It can be considered as the
defined as the degree to which a person perceives how important it is that ‘‘other people’’
believe he or she should use a technology. It can be considered as the synthesis of
variables such as subjective norms, planned behavior, and individual image. Further,
Facilitating Conditionsor FC are defined as the extent to which users believe that the
exist. These may include resource and technology factors concerning compatibility issues
that have an impact on usage (Teo&Noyes, 2011). FC also includes the necessary
training for the technology users. FC is the organizational and the technical support for
the users. It can be considered as the synthesis of variables such as perceived behavioral
(UTAUT) by Venkatesh, Morris, Davis and Davis (2003) will be used to look through its
lens on how the conceptual paradigm of this study will be addressed. By looking at the
four core components of this theory, the independent variables and the dependent
variables of student and teacher respondents in terms of age, sex, educational attainment,
technology equipment will be defined on how such behavioral intentions manifest in the
classroom setting. Further, effort expectancy can be examined through the context of how
learners defined such conditions of the learning process and teachers’ way of utilizing
With this perspective, social influence plays vital role to the first two core components
technology teachers utilize, and the amount of time each teacher and student use in
discussing contents as well as mastery on the concepts, this would offer new knowledge
that would assist learners and teachers enhance instructions and scholastic achievements.
Finally, facilitating conditions could also be used as lens to examine how instructional
instructional technology would be its primary scope, it can be used as lens to evaluate the
amount of time a particular learner spends for mastery as well as amount of time a
teacher spendsfor evaluating learner’s output. With the use of Unified Theory Of
Acceptance And Use Of Technology by Venkatesh, Morris, Davis and Davis (2003), all
the independent and dependent variables will be addressed vividly and logically.
variables and to what extent the usefulness of instructional technology would benefit the
to the readers as they are using this study, the following terms are defined.
Socio- demographic profileof Studentsrefers to the characteristics of student
parents
Agerefers to the number of years calculated from the time of the latest birth of the
respondent.
social group in this study includes Asian, Hispanic, American, Latinos, Australian
and Canadian.
such as age, sex, ethnicity, school district, current work responsibility, highest
technology equipment.
School District refers to geographical location of the school or venue where the study
Years of Teaching refers to the total number of teaching experience of the teacher
Area of Specialization refers tospecific discipline or area where the teacher respondent
Instructional Technology Integration refers to the process on how various technology tools
are utilized to teach or enhance learning. This includes the hardware (desktop
particular purpose especially in the teaching and learning process. In this study,
instructional technology that have been developed such as software and other
equipment will be used such as cellular, mobile, tablet, laptop, router, power-
point, printer, video clips, DVD, LCD projector, television and the like.
materials.
in daily basis.
topic.
Amount of Time Utilized for Assessment of Masterypertains to teacher respondents’
which has a significant effect on respondents which may refer to the extent to
Math Scores of fifth grade students from previous year (SY 2017-2018),
educational standards.
PARCC Scores refers to various levels such as: Level 1 means “Did not yet meet
performed at level 4 and above have demonstrated readiness for the next grade
school located at 4915 Annapolis Road, Bladensburg MD 20710 during the academic
year Fall 2018-Spring 2019. This was under the jurisdiction of Prince George’s County
Public Schools in the state of Maryland, USA. In this study, the PARCC scores of Spring
2018 of current fifth grade students have been selected since this group of students have
already taken the PARCC assessment for the last two consecutive years. An archival
study looking into Math scores from the previous school year, trends in technology use
relationship between technology use and time spent on technology and Math scores of
these students.
Figure 2: Map of Maryland USA showing the location where the study will be
conducted(source: google map)
Research Design
The study utilized two types of research designs namely the Descriptive and
expressions of frequencies, central tendency and deviations. On the other hand, Weirsma
and Jurs (2005) defined correlational design as a method of research involving the
between or among those variables, without drawing conclusions about the causal
relationships among the measured variables. The correlational design will be used to
establish the relationship between type of technology used, time spent on technology and
the match scores of students in PARCC assessment. Particularly, the correlation will
indicate whether there exists a positive correlation or there exists a negative correlation or
academic performance in mathematics thru the PARCC State Assessment scores among
5th grade students at Bladensburg Elementary School in Prince George’s County Public
Schools.
Researcher has identified the two groups of participants of the study, via total
classroom on the diploma track and 8 mathematics and non-mathematics major teachers
enumeration sampling as defined by Bernard (2006) is a probability sample that has been
selected based on characteristics of a population and the objectives of the study. Total
Since the setting of this study was at Bladensburg Elementary School in Prince
George’s County Public Schools, the teacher and student respondents were purposefully
in the classroom and content mastery in the learning process. The table below illustrated
Instrumentation
The First Instrument is for Teacher Respondents consisting of the three parts:
for teachers such as age, gender, ethnicity, school district, current work responsibility,
covers the type of technology used, amount of time spent preparing the instructional
technology, technology website or software used, amount of time in using website, level
of skills in using technology, and related instructional technology training attended. For
Content Delivery Using Instructional Technology, these include amount of time utilized
for content delivery, amount of time used by students for content mastery, and amount of
time used by teachers for assessment using technology. For Behavioral Intentions, these
Part III includes the performance of 5th grade students in Mathematics through
PARCC Assessment scores. Data from academic year Fall 2017 and Spring 2018 will be
tabulated and described according to five levels such as Level 1 (Did Not Meet
Expectations) with the score range from 650-699, Level 2 (Partially Met Expectations)
with the score range from 700-724, Level 3 (Approach Expectations) with the score range
from 725-750, Level 4 (Met Expectations)with the score range from 751-809, and Level
5 (Exceeded Expectations) with the score range from 810-850. These numerical scores
are standard values given by PARCC Assessment in the whole United State of America.
This part of the instrument will be filled up by the teacher respondents for individual
student score.
the classroom such as type of technology utilized for learning mathematics, amount of
website/software used for learning mathematics, level of skills in using technology, and
amount of time utilized by students for content mastery. Similar to teacher respondents,
the Likert Scale was likewise used such as 5 (strongly agree), 4 (Agree), 3 (partially
The whole parts of the survey questionnaire was designed and developed by the
researcher in accordance with the research paradigm. The researcher consulted three
anstatistician, and a research professor. Several revisions had been made to capture the
5th grade students in the neighboring elementary school county. The results were
analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) and got a Cronbach’s
coefficient alpha of 0.812 for its internal consistency suggesting that the instrument was
The first step was securing permission from the Prince’s George County Public
Schools (PGCPS) because it involved human subjects for the research. Registration
through online webpage was made by the researcher. After the approval, the researcher
using archival data from school year 2017-2018 to serve as a baseline corresponding to
Fall 2017 assessment administration. Then the Spring 2018 assessment administration
data was used through proper collaboration with the school registrar.
The second stage of the study was to conduct a survey using the first research
instrument survey among math teachers of the school to determine the instructional
technology being used for mathematics instruction, what websites and software the
teacher uses in teaching the content, amount of time utilizing the instructional
technology specified for delivery of content, amount of time utilizing the instructional
technology specified for student practice and mastery, and amount of time utilizing the
Since archival data was utilized, researcher worked directly with the school’s
Testing Coordinator. A letter requesting access to previous school year’s testing result
was sent to the School Principal for approval. Once approval was granted, data needed
Then, the second instrument surveywas given to the 5 th grade students to gather
instrument was administered for a week and some follow ups were made to clarify
For the methods of data analysis, different statistical tools will be used for this
study:
The frequency counts, percentage distribution, mean, and standard deviation will
as well as for the scaled-checklist of this study. These included their perceptions on the
To find out the significant relationship between student and teacher respondents
delivery and behavioral intentions, Pearson Product Moment Correlation was used.
The multiple linear regressionwas also used to determine whether the socio-
could be predictors of mathematics scores in PARCC Assessment test, the same method
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