Effect of Technology Advancement on Teacher’s Academic Achievement and Motivation
Exploring the Impact of Technology on Academic Achievement and Motivation
by Dr. Sanjay Kumar Yadav*,
- Published in International Journal of Physical Education & Sports Sciences, E-ISSN: 2231-3745
Volume 14, Issue No. 3, Jun 2019, Pages 254 - 258 (5)
Published by: Ignited Minds Journals
ABSTRACT
This examination was a quantitative report utilizing fourth grade member from a Title 1 primary school in Central Illinois. This review set off to decide if balanced technology (will be utilized henceforth) genuinely effects and impacts the academic achievement of understudies. This present concentrate's subsequent objective was to decide if Technology additionally impacts understudy inspiration to learn. Information was assembled from understudies taking part in this review through the Pearson imagines Math series with Topic Tests, Discovery Education Assessment results, and participation records being utilized. The outcomes show that Technology could be a factor in understudy academic achievement and inspiration to be at school. These discoveries are significant because of the mechanical shift that schools are presently confronting. With more technology openness for understudies and more expert advancement for instructors to sharpen their recently gained showing strategies, Technology might be the impetus required for school areas to assist their understudies with accomplishing more significant levels.
KEYWORD
technology advancement, teacher's academic achievement, motivation, quantitative report, fourth grade, Title 1 primary school, Central Illinois, academic achievement, understudies, student motivation, Pearson imagines Math series, Discovery Education Assessment, technology exposure, professional development, teaching methods, school districts
INTRODUCTION
Since No Child Left Behind's initiation, high stakes testing and responsibility has ambushed school areas the country over. School authorities and executives have attempted all kinds of solutions for advance understudy commitment and achievement in the homerooms, this incorporates carrying out technology into educational plans. As per the United States Department of Education (2002), the No Child Left behind Act likewise looked to take out the computerized partition and to have understudy innovatively proficient before the finish of the eighth grade, paying little heed to race, financial status, geographic area, and inability. Besides, the State of Illinois embraced the Common Core State Standards in 2010, with them being completely carried out in the 2013-2014 school year. These norms have taken the goals from No Child Left behind (NCLB) above and beyond with kids as youthful as Kindergarten matured being PC proficient. For instance, rather than composing broadened reaction questions, understudies are relied upon to type and create such reactions. Current evaluation drives require school area to utilize web based testing. The new Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), which replaces the ISAT Test in the province of Illinois will be taken internet based which is a tremendous distinction between old state evaluations and new state appraisals. These progressions are requiring school locale to give PCs and technology to their understudies and staff. The school region taking part in this review embraced a drive for 1:1 Technology to be a piece of homerooms over the most recent couple of years. This previous school year, the school region had the option to have select homerooms pilot 1:1 Technology. Instructors at the secondary school, middle school, and rudimentary levels were picked by area heads to have workstations as an asset and device for guidance and learning in the study hall. The school region is working intimately with neighborhood business for this drive to be area wide sooner rather than later. Because of the State of Illinois' proceeded with spending plan concerns, this isn't going on as fast as it was projected to be. Educators who are utilizing Technology are at a benefit over instructors who don't have this availability. Technology permits instructors to better and all the more rapidly separate, to regulate advancement, and to likewise plunge further into subjects of study, as the Common Core State Standards advances these prerequisites for understudies. Technology can likewise persuade understudies and permit them to be locked in on something else altogether than they have ever previously. This review analyzed whether
understudies to learn. One of the principle things that No Child Left Behind set off to achieve was to decrease the computerized split between financial class and race of understudies. The school area taking an interest in this review there are two primary schools that are immersed with higher rates of low-pay understudies. The greater part understudies don't have similar freedoms to be uncovered or have the foundation or past information with processing abilities and are as a general rule, mechanically uneducated. Two study halls from the partaking school region were picked to direct Technology. The expectation and objective of this pilot is to check whether Technology can further develop understudy academic achievement in the homeroom. This concentrate then, at that point, made that objective one stride further by inspecting the impacts of technology on understudy inspiration. This review ought to be helpful to lawmakers, school directors, and instructors as the majority of our schools are going to technology to help and help with learning in the homerooms. Technology is such a resource for any everyday schedule. The utilization of technology permits instructors to really separate and tailor guidance to address the issues of their understudies. With the new Common Core State Standards being carried out and the new evaluation measure being completely embraced by the territory of Illinois, Technology and being innovatively proficient is a particularly fundamental expertise for instructors, however more significantly, understudies. This review set off to show what technology can decidedly mean for understudy academic achievement and inspiration in the homeroom.
OBJECTIVE
To review on Students makers of technology these destinations are valuable for organizing jam instructive technology courses to assist educators with being more successful clients of instructive technology.
CORE NATURE OF TECHNOLOGY IDEAS
The idea of technology (NOT) is a complex develops. Further confusing the NOT develop is the way wherein NOT thoughts communicate with each other. The accompanying conversation of key NOT thoughts is essentially short and oversimplified, however is adequate for building up an establishment to address the ramifications of these thoughts for schooling.
Identifying Technology
While thinking about instructive technology, an excessive amount of accentuation is set on electronic and computerized advances. When a solitary member referenced any technology other than computerized innovations and the Internet. This restricted center disregards numerous other mechanical parts of school and their impact on learning. DiGironimo's (2019) reasonable system incorporates technology as relics (for example PC) and technology as a creation interaction (for example designing) while distinguishing advances. The National Academy of Engineering (2009) mirrors this view by noticing that technology incorporates: viable information, advancement, human exercises, and frameworks of parts. Extending the regularly held, however slender perspective on technology is significant for talk and dynamic with respect to technology in schools.
The Nature of Technological Advance
New technology is created considering past advancements (McArthur, 2007). That is, new advances are frequently made from parts and ideas of previously existing innovations. However much instructors need to put stock in the progressive force of technology, its development more intently takes after advancement than upset. That is, mechanical advancement is "slow and combined" Consider, for instance, the intelligent whiteboard. This technology would not be conceivable without PC technology and contact screen technology initially existing, and those innovations developed from past advances, etc. New advances are commonly a novel application and recombination of previously existing advances. The urgent point here is to painstakingly consider how new innovations may essentially be more modern and costly forms of previously existing materials and approaches in instruction. Technology improvement is nevertheless one part of innovative development. Reception of new innovations is maybe more significant than improvement. What is created is irrelevant if the technology isn't taken on. Innovations that are excessively far taken out from clients' normal experience are not liable to be embraced. That is, new data, if not acclimatized or obliged into existing compositions, will be excused (Piaget, 1970; Posner, Strike, Hewson, and Gertzog, 1982). Getting back to the intuitive whiteboard, consider why such a technology bodes well to numerous teachers. The blackboard, the overhead projector, the whiteboard, PowerPoint and the intelligent whiteboard are for the most part complicatedly related. Somewhat, the intelligent whiteboard's turn of events and use in schools mirrors the earlier pervasive utilization of blackboards.
Technology is Value-laden
Likewise with every human undertaking, technology is a worth loaded venture (DiGironimo, 2011). Thus, advancements plainly esteem a few objectives and disparate reasoning. Versatile advanced mobile phone technology is one-sided toward being continually associated. These inclinations have advantages and impairments, yet notwithstanding, that advancements are esteem loaded should be considered in training technology thinking. Sadly, the qualities of these inclinations are frequently hard to reveal.
The Limitations of Technology
Technology can't fix all issues. Without a doubt, technology frequently causes new issues while tackling others. A portion of the world's most major issues are not mechanical in nature. For instance, we have adequate farming technology to take care of the world, yet different variables steering clear of technology, keeps many individuals all around the world hungry. We have been raised on the fantasy that practically any issue can be addressed with a mechanical arrangement. In training, this supposition that is perilous and as far as technology, it very well may be lamentable. The most squeezing training issues have close to nothing, all things considered, to do with technology. Consider, for instance, the job of state administered testing in schooling. While certain mechanical advances make gathering information about understudies, educators, and locale conceivable, if and how such information are utilized will rely on central convictions and suppositions about instructing and learning, not just whether gathering such information is innovatively possible.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
His quantitative exploration study took a gander at the mean scores of Topic Tests in the Vision Math series, Discovery Education Assessments, and participation records to decide if Technology was answerable for understudy academic achievement and inspiration. The members in this review are Fourth Grade understudies who go to class in Central Illinois. Technology is a new marvels in school regions the nation over. As our reality turns out to be more advanced with technology, school authorities and managers are searching for the positive effects that technology can offer educators and understudies, the same, in the study hall through significant and drawing in showing strategies and guidance.
Participants
The members in this quantitative review were Fourth Grade understudies from two unique homerooms, however in a similar Title 1 School, situated in Central Illinois. As indicated by the Illinois Interactive Report Card (2018), the school has a low-pay pace of 84.3%, with 40.5% of the 1.0% American-Indian, and 0.7% Asian. This review analyzed what Technology means for members' academic achievement and inspiration in the homeroom. The review zeroed in especially on the Discovery Education Assessment, which is given four times each year, and furthermore ends of Topic Tests in Math to check whether there are any huge contrasts in understudy scoring. To check the persuasive part of this exploration, month to month participation records for each class were utilized. The school taking an interest in this review parts the school day in half into Periods 1 and 2. The quantity of nonappearances was controlled by adding the quantity of nonattendances from Periods 1 and 2 for every homeroom.
Instrumentation
In this review, Topic Tests in Math, Discovery Education Assessment (Math) results, and participation were utilized to decide if Technology decidedly impacts understudy academic achievement and inspiration in understudies. The Topic Tests were gotten from the Pearson imagine Math series that has been taken on by the Bloomington Public School District 87. This particular Math series is Common Core State Standard adjusted and encourages the language and examples to satisfy these learning guidelines. The Topic Tests are utilized as summative appraisals to measure the dominance of Math abilities. The Discovery Education Assessment is an appraisal that is directed through PC multiple times each school year. As per the Discovery Education Assessment Research, this appraisal is utilized as a prescient benchmark evaluation that gives information utilizing state's educational program norms and subs kills for everything on the test. The Discovery Education Assessment can be utilized to further develop guidance, assist with reinforcing understudies' academic abilities, and increment capability, as estimated under No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top. These four appraisals are managed all through the school year with 9-12 weeks between every evaluation. The prescient benchmark appraisals are expected to foresee execution on the following high-stakes test the understudy will take during the school year. Disclosure Education Assessment utilizes an upward scale score with scores going from 1000-2000. Revelation Education utilizes the Rasch Model of Item Response Theory (IRT), a solitary boundary model, to ascertain the upward scale. Participation records were likewise broke down to decide whether there are any examples of understudies being at school because of their inspiration to learn with Technology.
In Table 1, there were some recognizable disparities in the Topic Test scores between the 1:1 Implementation Classroom and the Traditional Classroom. In Topic Tests 1 and 3, these mean scores were well over the Traditional Classroom, while in Topic Tests 5 and 6, the Traditional Classroom scored well over the Implementation Classroom.
Table 1. Comparison of Topic Tests Scores between 1:1 Implementation Classroom and the Traditional Classroom Figure 1 Comparison of Topic Tests Scores between Implementation Classroom and the Traditional Classroom Technology Affect Student Motivation
Table 2, understudies from the Implementation Classroom scored higher on Discovery Assessment A than the Traditional Classroom, however in Discovery Assessment C, the understudies from the Traditional Classroom scored higher than the Implementation Classroom.
Table 2- Comparison of Discovery Assessment scores between the Implementation Classroom and the Traditional Classroom Figure 2. Comparison of Discovery Assessment scores between the Implementation Classroom and the Traditional Classroom
In Table 3, the Implementation Classroom had about a similar participation in October and November, yet in December and January, the 1Implementation Classroom had less nonappearance than the Traditional Classroom.
Table 3- Comparison of Number of Absences between the 1:1 Implementation Classroom and the Traditional Classroom Figure 3. Comparison of Attendance Records between the Implementation Classroom and the Traditional Classroom
RESULTS
The reason for this review was to decide if Technology impacts understudy academic achievement and inspiration. Technology alludes to the mechanical development of each youngster in the homeroom, school, school region, and so forth, having a PC in the study hall to control and learn with as a device. In the Implementation study hall, 25 understudies took an interest in the review, though in the customary homeroom, just 22 slant or distort the information that is accumulated and investigated for this review. The information accumulated was then placed into tables and figures to decide whether Implementation does genuinely impact understudy academic achievement and inspiration. The inspirational angle for this review was estimated utilizing the understudy participation records. The school that took an interest in this review parts the entire school day into Periods 1 and 2.
CONCLUSION
As indicated in the Results segment of this review, Implementation alludes to the innovative development of each youngster in the homeroom, school, school region, and so on, having a PC, or gadget, in the study hall to control and learn with as an instrument. The Implementation Classroom was in its first year of implementation for the teacher and furthermore for the understudies taking part in this review. This particular Fourth Grade study hall is one of two Fourth Grade homerooms utilized for Bloomington Public School District 87's technology test case program.
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Corresponding Author Dr. Sanjay Kumar Yadav* Associate Professor, Teacher Education Department, AK College, Shikohabad