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SIGTE Research Paper Award Winners 2002-2008

2008

Dr. Teresa Foulger, Mia Kim Williams, and Dr. Keith Wetzel of Arizona State University’s College of Teacher Education and Leadership received the award for their paper, "Innovative Technologies, Small Groups, and a Wiki:  A 21st Century Preservice Experience Founded on Collaboration." Click to read (PDF)

2007

Robert Hancock, Southeastern Louisiana University, Gerald Knezek, University of North Texas, Rhonda Christensen, University of North Texas:  Cross Validating  Measures of Technology Integration:  A First Step Toward Examining Potential Relationships Between Integration and Student Achievement.  Click to read (PDF)

2006

No award given

2005

First-place winners for the 2005 SIGTE Research Paper Award were Vivian Wright and Elizabeth Wilson from the University of Alabama. Their winning paper was entitled, "From Preservice to Inservice Teaching: A Study of Technology Integration." Their longitudinal study examined technology integration during preservice to inservice teaching, specifically use of technology skills and methods acquired during electronic portfolio development. Click to read (PDF)

The authors were recognized at the annual ISTE Business Meeting as well as at the ISTE Awards Gala. The paper was presented in a specially designated one-hour research paper session.

2004

First Place winners for the 2004 SIGTE Research Paper Award were Melissa Pierson and Alysa McLachlan, University of Houston, Project title: Case Studies of Future Teachers: Learning to Teach with Technology. The winning project was a longitudinal study that explored preservice teachers' developing vision of technology in teaching and learning. Participants included eight teacher education students whom the authors followed for four years, the two years of the teacher education program and the first two inductive years of teaching. The authors reported initial understandings of participants' developing vision of teaching with technology, including their expectations for teaching with technology, perceived challenges of technology, questioning classroom uses of technology, and the driving development of a technology-rich program by education students. The authors were recognized at the annual ISTE Business Meeting as well as at the SIGTE Business Meeting. The paper was presented in both a round table format and a research paper session. Click to read (PDF)

2003

No award given

2002

SIGTE President Ann Cunningham, SIGTE Research Paper Award Winner Peggy Ertmer, and SIGTE Past President Dale Niederhauser

Peggy Ertmer, Purdue University, won the SIGTE Research Award 2002 for her paper "Online Professional Development: Building Administrator's Capacity for Technology Leadership." Peggy presented her results in a research paper concurrent session and was presented her award plaque during the SIGTE business meeting.