Constructivist assistive technology in a mathematics classroom for the deaf

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dc.contributor.authorAbiatal, Loide K. S.
dc.contributor.authorHoward, Grant R.
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-04T08:16:34Z
dc.date.available2020-06-04T08:16:34Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractWithin the context of almost nine million children with hearing disabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa, their education is an important topic. The problem was the lack of conclusive research about the effects of digital assistive technologies for educating deaf learners in Sub-Saharan African countries, such as Namibia. The question was could a digital assistive technology improve the mathematics achievement of deaf children? The research objective was to gather scientific evidence by conducting a quantitative experiment with constructivist digital assistive technology and qualitative interviews with the teachers involved. The findings from the experiment suggest that the constructivist digital assistive technology may have had a positive effect on the mathematics achievement of the learners, which was supported by the findings from the interviews. This makes an original contribution to the domain and offers an intervention that was feasible, practical and potentially effective for improving the teaching and learning of mathematics for deaf learners.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAbiatal, L. K., & Howard, G. R. (2019). Constructivist Assistive Technology in a Mathematics Classroom for the Deaf: Going Digital at a Rural Namibian Primary School. In Proceedings of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists 2019 (pp. 1-9)en_US
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1145/3351108.3351136
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11070/2749
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherACM Digital Libraryen_US
dc.source.urihttps://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3351108.3351136
dc.subjectConstructivist assistive technologyen_US
dc.subjectMathematics educationen_US
dc.subjectDeaf learnersen_US
dc.subjectAssistive techologyen_US
dc.subjectLearners performanceen_US
dc.subjectNamibiaen_US
dc.titleConstructivist assistive technology in a mathematics classroom for the deafen_US
dc.title.alternativeGoing digital at a rural Namibian rrimary schoolen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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