Measuring Appy Hour

1. MEASURING “APPY HOUR”

2. “
”
ALL IMPORTANT DECISION MAKERS
COULD BENEFIT FROM LEARNING THAT
ANYTHING THAT THEY REALLY NEED TO
KNOW IS MEASURABLE.
(Douglas Hubbard, xv)
Hubbard, D. W. (2014). How to measure anything finding the value of "intangibles" in
business (3rd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

3. What are we measuring?
When looking at my innovation project of “Appy Hour”, I
have decided to look at measuring two different ideas.
• The first idea is measuring the teacher’s level of comfort
with technology. We need to see if teachers are using
apps and technology before we begin “Appy Hour”, and
why or why not.
• The second idea is measuring whether “Appy Hour” is
changing behaviors by looking at the number of apps or
technology that are used at the beginning of an “Appy
Hour” cycle and again at the end. If the number of apps
or programs increase, then “Appy Hour” is having some
effect on teachers. We also need to look at what factors
contributed to the change in behaviors.

4. What methods and research
design will be used?
• The research design that will be used is both
descriptive research (what?) and explanatory
research design (why?).
• We will use qualitative reseach methods,
focusing mostly on in depth interviews
through a survey and short answer format.
• We would like to design our surveys as closely
as possible to a Likert scale, as to help
measure attitude and opinions.

5. Privacy, Procedures and Ethical
Considerations
• Surveys will be anonymous both to
protect identities and to increase the
likelihood of truthfulness.
• Information given in the surveys will be
used to make the “Appy Hour” concept
stronger and focus professional
development on what the Moore teachers
need.

6. What are the measures and what instruments
will be used to gather data?
• We are looking at measuring two different
ideas. First off, we want to measure the
effectiveness of “Appy Hour”. The second
thing we want to measure is teacher
comfort and perceptions of using
technology in the classroom.

7. • To measure the effectiveness of
“Appy Hour”, I am looking at
creating a survey, through a site
such as survey monkey or
google docs, where I can use a
Likert scale format to address
teacher’s use of apps and
technology. This will be given
before a cycle of “Appy Hour”
and after a cycle of “Appy Hour”,

8. • To measure the teacher comfort and
perceptions of technology use, I am looking
at creating a combination of two existing
surveys to get the information that I feel is
needed when looking at “Appy Hour”. I
would like to set these up in a Likert scale
also. The two instruments that I am looking
at combining are the TUPS survey
(Technology Uses and Perceptions) created
by the Florida Center for Instructional
Technology and the Survey of Preservice
Teacher’s Knowledge of Teaching and
Technology. These surveys can be accessed
in the bibliography.

9. Results
• I plan on putting the results into an Excel
spreadsheet to come up with percentages for
each part of the Likert scale.
• I hope to use the data obtained by the “Appy
Hour” portion of the measurement to look at
trends and ideas for future professional
development.
• I would like to use the information from the
perception and uses survey to gain knowledge
about where the teachers are in our building, to
help determine future staff development.
• I plan on sharing the results with my building
administration and our technology liason so they

10. Bibliography
Hubbard, D. W. (2014). How to measure anything finding the value of
"intangibles" in business (3rd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Schmidt, D. A., Baran, E., Thompson, A. D., Koehler, M. J., MIshra, P., &
Shin, T. (n.d.). Survey of Preservice Teachers' Knowledge of Teaching
and Technology. Retrieved June 19, 2016,from
http://mkoehler.educ.msu.edu/unprotected_readings/TPACK_Survey/S
chmidt_et_ al_Survey_v1.pdf
TIM: The Technology Integration Matrix | A video resource supporting the
full integration of technology in Florida schools. (n.d.). Retrieved June
19, 2016, from http://fcit.usf.edu/matrix/tups