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Students’ Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Technology Use by Professors

Students’ Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Technology Use by Professors. IT 635 Natalie Cainaru Alaa Alfarooqi Hong Yang. Our Research Questions. What are SUNY Potsdam students’ perceptions of the effectiveness of technology use by their professors?

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Students’ Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Technology Use by Professors

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  1. Students’ Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Technology Use by Professors IT 635 Natalie Cainaru AlaaAlfarooqi Hong Yang

  2. Our Research Questions • What are SUNY Potsdam students’ perceptions of the effectiveness of technology use by their professors? • What are SUNY Potsdam students’ perceptions of the effectiveness of the technologies that they (the students themselves) are using?

  3. The Research Process • Define Research Questions • Conduct Faculty & Staff Interviews • Design Surveys • Pre-test Survey • Redesign Survey Questions • Distribute Survey by Email • Collect Data • Analyze Data

  4. Results

  5. Demographics Figure 1. Percentage of Survey Participants by class year (n=238).

  6. Table 1. Survey Participants Majors (n=287).

  7. Tech Usage Compared with Tech Desire Figure 2. Comparing two questions: For this semester, in general, what kinds of technology do your professors use in your class? (n=236) and What kinds of technology would you like your professors to use that would better support the curriculum/course material? (n=212).

  8. Effectiveness of Tech Use by Professors Figure 3. For this semester, in general, based upon your experiences, do your professors use the following? (n=230).

  9. Opinions on Absence of Tech Figure 4. In general, what do you think are the reasons behind the professor’s use of no technology? (n=222). Purple bars indicate aspects that professors can control .

  10. Opinions on Appropriate Uses of Devices in Class Figure 5. What do you feel are the appropriate uses of electronic devices in the classroom? (n=220).

  11. Tech that Students Use on Their Own Figure 6. Do you yourself (without initiative of the professor) use the following? (n=216).

  12. Opinions about Improvement with Tech Figure 7. Since taking classes at SUNY Potsdam, do you feel your skills in the following technology have improved? (n=208).

  13. Conclusion • Professors are effectively using the most popular and most desired technologies in their classes. • Training could help improve the effectiveness and adoption of many technologies in the classroom. • Students do not feel they are improving with regards to certain technology • Students already acknowledge what could be considered “appropriate” uses of their own technology in the classroom

  14. Suggestions for further study • Suggestions for future research could be to generate a more in-depth survey regarding students’ expectations about what technologies they think professors should be using in their courses. Such a survey could be general or could go deeper into technology use by specific academic departments.

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