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

Hanife Goker; Latife Ozaydin; Hakan Tekedere

doi:10.12973/eurasia.2016.1207a

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Hanife Goker ¹, Latife Ozaydin ¹, Hakan Tekedere ¹ ^*

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¹ Gazi University, TURKEY^* Corresponding Author

Abstract

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.

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educational software
hearing impairment
concept teaching
usability
young children

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EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, Volume 12, Issue 1, January 2016, 109-124

https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2016.1207a

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Goker, H., Ozaydin, L., & Tekedere, H. (2016). The Effectiveness and Usability of the Educational Software on Concept Education for Young Children with Impaired Hearing. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 12(1), 109-124. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2016.1207a

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Goker H, Ozaydin L, Tekedere H. The Effectiveness and Usability of the Educational Software on Concept Education for Young Children with Impaired Hearing. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2016;12(1):109-24. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2016.1207a

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Goker H, Ozaydin L, Tekedere H. The Effectiveness and Usability of the Educational Software on Concept Education for Young Children with Impaired Hearing. EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed. 2016;12(1), 109-124. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2016.1207a

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Goker, Hanife, Latife Ozaydin, and Hakan Tekedere. "The Effectiveness and Usability of the Educational Software on Concept Education for Young Children with Impaired Hearing". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education 2016 12 no. 1 (2016): 109-124. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2016.1207a

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Goker, H., Ozaydin, L., and Tekedere, H. (2016). The Effectiveness and Usability of the Educational Software on Concept Education for Young Children with Impaired Hearing. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 12(1), pp. 109-124. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2016.1207a

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Goker, Hanife et al. "The Effectiveness and Usability of the Educational Software on Concept Education for Young Children with Impaired Hearing". Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, vol. 12, no. 1, 2016, pp. 109-124. https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2016.1207a