The Effects Of Technology On Classroom Practices And Student Outcomes

Technology in the school has become an increasingly challenging and somewhat disruptive aspect in today’s educational system. In order to maintain what is considered the status quo, schools have focused their energy and resources on banning cell phones, wireless Internet and blocking social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter in schools. However, as technology continues to grow in our society outside of the school, many believe that effectively involving these technologies into the classroom can ultimately improve student engagement in their learning environments. This research paper will focus on both sides of the argument and ultimately seek to determine if there is a best practice regarding technological being put into schools.

Modern technology has penetrated every aspect of our lives and made great impacts on our daily activities, especially in the area of education. The continuous infusion of technology in education has become an unchangeable tendency. Given the increased use of technology in education, much research has been done on the value of technology in education. However, none of the studies have answered all of the questions that are essential to determining whether continuous infusion of new technologies in education can improve the quality of education. Since a clear answer to this question is vital to help educational organizations to make decisions on how much

Technology in the classroom is important for teachers, parents, and students alike, because technology use has become a necessary skill for survival in today’s vastly expanding technology driven global economy. Research has shown an increase in student’s success rates when exposed to technology in the classroom. Also technology has opened lines of communication between educators and parents to keep students on track, and help teachers educate better.

To ensure the proposed study is academically, professionally, and ethically sound, researchers shall complete a risk assessment on the proposed method (participants, materials and design) of the study. This risk assessment will form the basis of the application to Swinburne University’s Research Ethics Office for ethical review. This application will address the risks identified with the participants used, including recruitment and informed consent, as well as data and publication arrangements.

Part I: The legal considerations would be to inform the participants that there would be no harm or risk to the participants. Since the participants are adolescents the researcher needs to obtain a secure informed consent from the parent or guardian before they participate. The researcher’s ethics are to provide full disclosure to the participants. The researcher should be open and honest to the participants regarding the study. The researcher’s ethical consideration is to protect the privacy of each participant. This can be accomplished by ensuring confidentiality and by having the data stored securely. Also, the researcher should

There are a few issues of concern that ought to be considered in every research venture. Firstly, I thought that it was important to direct my research and investigation with the primary point of advancing truth, information, and to keep away from slips that may happen because of carelessness. I attempted to agree to preclusions against distorting, adulterating, or manufacture the given research information. These were gone for staying away from slip and advancing truth.

Alderson (2008, cited in Robert-Holmes 2014, p. 49) stated that acquiring the participants’ informed consent to conduct the research is part of building trust in the relationship between researcher and the participants. In this study, informed consent will firstly be sought from the Centre supervisor for her knowledge and approval for research study to be conducted within Centre’s setting. It will then be given to teacher participants and parents of the students. Parents of the students will be given the informed consent to seek consent in allowing the researcher to conduct observations on the child while seeking consent from teacher participants to seek their participation and allowing their responses from the interview to be used as part of the

57). This exchange of information should be administered at a 5th grade comprehension level. The subject should be willing to participate in the study with no reward offered for participation. The informed consent process begins with participant selection and ends with a signed document of agreement.

I have learned that “what” the research finds isn’t the only thing that is important. We need to also be considered with “how” they went about finding it. The treatment of the research participants is always a consideration when doing research. Beneficence is the process of finding the most accurate results possible while ensuring fair treatment of the participants (Cozby & Bates, 2012). Some steps taken to ensure proper treatment of participants begin with informed consent. This ensures that those involved understand the all parts of the research that may affect their decision to participate (Cozby & Bates, 2012). This does not necessarily mean that there is full disclosure as that may interfere with accurate results. Debriefing is helpful after the completion of the research to counteract any ill effects suffered because of the research (Cozby & Bates, 2012). A safeguard in place to further protect participants is the Institutional Review Board. This board is in place and responsible for the research conditions taking place at their institution (Cozby & Bates, 2012). Another way to protect participants is confidentiality. This can be achieved through anonymous questionnaires, or coding of answers to protect privacy (Cozby & Bates, 2012). Protection doesn’t only apply

There are several ethical issues that can arise when conducting research. A few of these are field of study dilemmas, the researchers’ integrity, social and economic issues, physical and psychological issues. Field of study refers to areas of research that are controversial in nature. Ethical dilemmas that can arise under fields of study are contentious topics such as embryo research and fetal tissue research (National Institute of Health, 2008). Studies such as this could be deemed not ethically acceptable research. Researchers’ integrity can pose problems when researchers behave in ways that are not appropriate for the sake of research. Social and economic issues in research include problems such as stigma, embarrassment within social groups and financial burdens. If research data is disclosed to outside sources it could damage a participant’s reputation, they can become

Research Materials, Records, and Privacy Issues. (Identify the sources of material that will be obtained from subjects, what information will be recorded, concerns relating to privacy of subjects, and explain why this information is needed to conduct the research activities.) The information received from potential participants will be recorded and filed with a lock and key in the researcher’s office. Participant’s identity will be unknown to the researchers, and their responses will be

In agreement to this Greetham (2009, p. 115) discusses six key ethical issues that should be considered when working with others. Privacy, confidentiality, consent, safety, fairness, and impartiality. This is to ensure that any information given is conducted properly and that it is not used for anything other than the study it is intended for. It will be explained to all participants that no names

Regarding ethics, I think that both authors failed in protecting the confidentiality of the students. First, both studies have been done at Fairfax County (VA) Public Schools District (Hicok, 2000; Terrell, 1999). By knowing the school district, it will be easy

Throughout the research, the researchers have adopted Ethical Standards holding the knowledge as to what is wrong, as such, we had focused and proceeded towards what is right. This is done in order to prevent against conflicts arising in the research and developed solutions to prevent and combat them. These standards include principles in which were followed promoting values such as trust, good behavior and fairness. The researchers avoided being bias in terms of the information received and towards participants.

I’ve learned that it’s not necessarily what we find out from research but, where we gathered the information. We should be careful with how we find out information. With all information gathered, we must also gather participants. It is essential that those whom take on the role of scientific researcher of psychology that the guidelines of the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct be followed (Cozby & Bates, 2015, p. 47). Confidentiality and privacy is very important within research. Confidentiality is an issue when a researcher has assured subjects that the collected data are only accessible to people with permission, generally only the researcher (Cozby & Bates, 2015, p. 50). One major step to ensure proper treatment is to gather informed consents. An informed consent allows all participants to understand all parts of research might influence their active decision of