The Effectiveness and Usability of the Educational Software on Concept Education for Young Children with Impaired Hearing

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Goker H., Ozaydin L., TEKEDERE H.

EURASIA JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION, cilt.12, sa.1, ss.109-124, 2016 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 12 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2016
  • Doi Numarası: 10.12973/eurasia.2016.1207a
  • Dergi Adı: EURASIA JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.109-124
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: educational software, hearing impairment, concept teaching, usability, young children, EARLY INTERVENTION, STUDENTS, ACHIEVEMENT, INSTRUCTION, MATHEMATICS, PEERS, WORDS, DEAF
  • Gazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Early intervention and early education have a special place in educating the children with Impaired Hearing (IH). The advancements in information and communication technologies have led to adopting the view that such technologies could be applied in the educational process of the children with IH. Besides, the positive results acquired in the studies conducted in the light of this review have brought up the fact that proper technology-based educational environments should be provided and popularized for the young children with IH. In this study, educational software has been developed for the purpose of teaching emotions and opposite concepts to young children with IH. With this software, videos with topic descriptions, games reinforcing funny and topic-based learning, questions and audio-visual feedbacks have been used. The effectiveness of this software in concept education along with its usability by children has been examined; and in addition, the subjective viewpoints of the teachers of students with IH on this software have been consulted as well.