How Principals' Technological Leadership Impacts Students' Use and Beliefs of Educational Technology

• In Event: Technology and Leadership in Action

Abstract

This quantitative study examines the relationship between teacher perceptions of principals’ technological leadership and how students use and perceive technology in their schools. This study's data comes from one midwestern state and includes 766 responses from teachers and 737 student responses. The multilevel regression analysis results will shed light on teachers' perceptions of their principals' technological leadership and how students in the same school district feel about the technology in their classrooms, their personal lives, and their beliefs about how technology can influence their education. The results will allow researchers and school stakeholders to analyze the role principal technological leadership has on how teachers use technology in their lessons and students' beliefs.

Authors

• Cailen O'Shea, North Dakota State University

• Scott McLeod, University of Colorado Denver

• John B. Nash, University of Kentucky