Volume 1 - Issue 1 - DBU Journal for K-12 Educational Leadership - Page 10

8 experimental manner, it is easy to argue the costs savings of a BYOD program would allow for investment in profession - al development to increase instructional efficacy and lead to net gains in achievement at a lower total cost. In terms of contribution to the research on technology integration, the question of whether the various laptop and tablet programs or Bring Your Own Device policies influence student achievement remains somewhat open. In this study, the students who used school provided netbooks tended to do marginally better, but the most positive conclusion that can be asserted is that the BYOD policies in the first year of their implementation at the selected middle school did little harm to student achievement levels. While there were limitations and limited opportunity to generalize the information from the study, the data in its en- tirety is valuable information for making instructional deci- Eric Creeger, Ed.D.