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Roddy, Patricia Christina – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of the current study was to investigate the differences in comfort with technology in middle school counselors in South Carolina. The researcher's goal was to determine the effects of years of experience, technology training, gender, and age on middle school counselors' comfort with technology. After a review of literature, it has been…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, School Counselors, Experience, Gender Differences
Graves, Tiffany Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the perceptions of middle school, technologically proficient, or digitally-wise teachers, regarding how they defined, prevented, recognized, and handled incidences of cyberbullying in four middle schools located in Southern Virginia. Data was collected using an open-ended questionnaire,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teacher Attitudes, Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers
Anderson, Barbara A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this quantitative one-group pretest-posttest design study was to test the effectiveness of professional development for integrating technology in the curriculum of an urban Iowa middle school. Iowa middle school teachers are expected to integrate technology, to comply with Iowa Core Curriculum standards, by 2014. The participants…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Faculty Development, Technology Integration, Urban Schools
Belo, Rodrigo – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This work comprises studies on the effects of broadband Internet in schools at three different levels: student performance, household Internet adoption, and individual computer and Internet use patterns and skill acquisition. I focus in the case of Portugal, where by 2006 the Portuguese government had completed a major initiative that upgraded the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Internet, Middle School Students
Francis, Norman, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study focused on the degree to which New Jersey public middle school principals perceived that New Jersey public middle school teachers are implementing the New Jersey Core Curricular Content Standard for Technology (Standard 8.1 Computer and Information Literacy), mandated by the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDOE) into their teaching…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, State Standards, Academic Standards, Technology Education
Suppo, Chris A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate digital citizenship in Pennsylvania public schools based on the responses of school leaders including superintendents, curriculum coordinators, and technology coordinators. This study examined the relationship between Pennsylvania school leader's beliefs and the implementation of digital citizenship…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Administrator Attitudes, Correlation, Educational Technology
Marcum, Carrie E. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The "digital natives" that are sitting in today's classrooms live their lives surrounded by technology. "The current crop of learners differs in significant ways from previous generations because, unlike their predecessors, they have literally grown up 'digital'" (Simpson & Clem, 2008, p. 2). Teachers and administrators…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Middle Schools, Educational Technology, Middle School Teachers