The Development of an Instrument to Measure the Teacher's Perception of the Effect of One-to-One Initiatives on Classroom Climate

• In Event: 54.079 - Inside Classrooms and Homes: Tools for Organizing Teaching and Learning

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop an instrument to measure teacher’s perceptions of the effect of mobile technology initiatives on classroom climate. Benson and Clark’s (1982) process was used to develop the instrument in four phases: planning, item construction, quantitative evaluations, and validation. A 115-item pool was constructed and tested on a pool of K-12 educators (N=334) in mobile technology teaching environments. The pool was refined through a principal axis factor analysis to create a 35-item instrument. The instrument was developed with four factors: Student Centered Innovation (α = 0.88), Challenges (α = 0.87), Policies and Support (α = 0.76), and Technical Skills (α = 0.76). These are consistent with the current literature.

Author

• Carol Wyatt, Jesuit High School