Share Paper: Educational Technology: Teacher Satisfaction, Teacher Practices, and Student Outcomes

  1. Leslie Ponciano, Age of Learning, Inc., United States
Tuesday, March 3 10:15-10:35 AM Amazon P

Abstract: This presentation will share the results of two recent research studies conducted with the online early learning curriculum ABCmouse.com to better understand the connection between teacher satisfaction, online usage patterns, and the learning of important foundational skills. It was hypothesized that if teachers reported higher levels of satisfaction, their students would have higher levels of website usage, and that this higher usage would result in higher standardized assessment scores. Furthermore, this presentation will engage the participants in a discussion of the link between teacher beliefs (teacher-directed vs. constructivist approaches), teacher practices related to educational technology, and how both relate to ...