Learning Community-An International Journal of Educational and Social Development
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 2and3

Effectiveness of Computer Assisted Instructional Package as Remedial Teaching for Learning disabled Children

Department of Education, N.A.S. College, Meerut (UP) India – 250004

Corresponding author: *ravikrishna010596@gmail.com

**shikhachaturvediccsu@gmail.com

Online published on 21 February, 2015.

Abstract

The study determined the effectiveness of Computer-Assisted Instructional package (Games/Simulations) as Remedial teaching for learning disabled children among fifth grade students. Two null hypotheses were tested. The study adopted the pre-test-post-test-control group design. Simple random sample of sixty four (64) students were drawn from seven schools in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India. The researcher developed computer assisted instructional package (Game/Simulations) for Learning Disabled Children which was used as an instrument for experimental group while control group were exposed to traditional teaching method. The instrument for data collection was DTLD Test. The t-test statistics was used to analyse the hypothesis. The findings revealed that experimental group performed better than the control group.

Keywords

Computer assisted instruction, learning disabled, DTLD, remedial teaching