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How to choose good applications for Smart Learning: By developing evaluation form for students with learning disabilities

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2014, 15(4), pp.397-416
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

Kang Eun Young 1 Ok Min Wook 2 Min Kyung Kim 3

1텍사스 주립 대학교
2University of Texas at Austin
3East Tennessee State University

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ABSTRACT

Smart learning utilized mobile devices has been rapidly developed in education filed. Students with learning disabilities (LD) can improve their academic performances using applications with mobile devices in their learning as one area of assistive technology. However, there is doubt that high quality applications for learning are being developed, and teachers have difficult to choose appropriate applications, which are including effective instruction principles for students with LD. Thus, the purpose of this study is to develop the form that can evaluate various applications in market. Thirteen items in the evaluation form contain the theoretical principles of effective instruction for students with LD. The reliability across evaluators is 94%, and the form was validated by special education teachers to confirm how the evaluation form is applicable in real school setting. The evaluation form can help teachers choose good applications, so smart learning can be realized to students with LD.

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