Comparing Technology-Related Teacher Professional Development Designs: A Multilevel Study of Teacher and Student Impacts
ARTICLE
Andrew Walker, Mimi Recker, Lei Ye, M Brooke Robertshaw, Linda Sellers, Heather Leary
Educational Technology Research and Development Volume 60, Number 3, ISSN 1042-1629
Abstract
This article presents a quasi-experimental study comparing the impact of two technology-related teacher professional development (TTPD) designs, aimed at helping junior high school science and mathematics teachers design online activities using the rapidly growing set of online learning resources available on the Internet. The first TTPD design ("tech-only") focused exclusively on enhancing technology knowledge and skills for finding, selecting, and designing classroom activities with online resources, while the second ("tech + pbl") coupled technology knowledge with learning to design problem-based learning (PBL) activities for students. Both designs showed large pre-post gains for teacher participants (N = 36) in terms of self-reported knowledge, skills, and technology integration. Significant interaction effects show that teachers in the "tech + pbl" group had larger gains for self-reported knowledge and externally rated use of PBL. Three generalized estimating equation (GEE) models were fit to study the impact on students' (N = 1,247) self reported gains in behavior, knowledge, and attitudes. In the resulting models, students of "tech + pbl" teachers showed significant increases in gain scores for all three outcomes. By contrast, students of "tech-only" teachers showed improved gains only in attitudes.
Citation
Walker, A., Recker, M., Ye, L., Robertshaw, M.B., Sellers, L. & Leary, H. (2012). Comparing Technology-Related Teacher Professional Development Designs: A Multilevel Study of Teacher and Student Impacts. Educational Technology Research and Development, 60(3), 421-444. Retrieved March 1, 2021 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/67560/.

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Keywords
- Class Activities
- Comparative Analysis
- educational technology
- electronic learning
- Inservice Teacher Education
- instructional design
- Instructional Effectiveness
- interaction
- Junior High School Students
- Learning Activities
- Mathematics Teachers
- Outcome Measures
- Outcomes of Education
- Pretests Posttests
- problem based learning
- Program Design
- Program Effectiveness
- Quasiexperimental Design
- science teachers
- Secondary School Teachers
- technology integration
- Web Based Instruction
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