A survey method, using a likert scale will be used to measure the responses to the following questions. Also includes will be pie charts, for visual illustration.

 A :Students should be allowed to use their phone for educational purposes during school hours

Strongly Agree            Agree              Neutral            Disagree           Strongly Disagree

B: Allowing students to have smartphones in school, will only create further burdens, such as texting and using their phones to call friends in my classroom.

Strongly Agree            Agree              Neutral            Disagree           Strongly Disagree

 C: It would be helpful, if students could have their textbooks downloaded to their phones, since JCPS text books are not allowed to be taken out of the building

Strongly Agree            Agree              Neutral            Disagree           Strongly Disagree

D: I would allow my students to use their smartphone device to surf the internet for scholarly purposes

Strongly Agree            Agree              Neutral            Disagree           Strongly Disagree

E: Allowing students to use their smartphone in school to web search, would actually increase student engagement:

Strongly Agree            Agree              Neutral            Disagree           Strongly Disagree

  F: At one time or another, I have allowed students to use their phones in school scholarly activity:

Strongly Agree            Agree              Neutral            Disagree           Strongly Disagree

G: If the school could guarantee they could block social media, and inappropriate material, I would be in favor of smart phone devices in my school:

Strongly Agree            Agree              Neutral            Disagree           Strongly Disagree

H:  Our school district’s Information Service Department is sophisticated enough to block inappropriate signals being accessed via internet within our building:

Strongly Agree            Agree              Neutral            Disagree           Strongly Disagree

As previously mentioned, the study I am conducting is a survey to analyze teacher readiness to integrate mobile phones in the classroom.  Its purpose is to challenge their perception of this as an effective learning tool, and to increase awareness of it being a nominal, if any, interference to classroom order, and evolving into an instrument of student centered learning.

The survey method was chosen, since I was not going to break it down to pure quantitative analysis regarding gender, age and years of experience, opting rather for a simple Likert Scale from high to low, which in reality is a survey resembling Likert then actually being a true Likert.

Thus, it is a qualitative study, which has quantitative conclusions.  There is not enough variance amongst age and gender, to make the study any more complex. The predominate demographic is female, with an equal mix of middle age to young.

Knowing this demographic, according to previous studies tend to be in favor of smart phone integration, I wanted to see what barriers at Cane Run Elementary would impact them either positive or negatively. 

Therefore, a simple mean, median and mode with bar graphs will be the instrument of measurement.

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