Visually impaired student-teachers’ knowledge and use of basic assistive technology tools for mathematics

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 945-955
Author(s):  
Clement Ayarebilla Ali ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Mathematical Activity ◽  
Technology Tools ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Two Stages

Studies show that assistive technology tools have provided opportunities for the visually impaired in some developed countries to pursue mathematics programmes and foster inclusive education. However, their counterparts in developing countries sparingly participate in any mathematical activity due to low knowledge and use of these tools. The main purpose of this study was to expose student-teachers with visual impairments to basic assistive technology tools. The knowledge and use of the tools helped to convert, convey and interpret basic mathematical equations. The design was a case study involving five student-teachers who were admitted to the Department of Basic Education, University of Education, Winneba to pursue a Post Diploma in Mathematics programme. A semi-structured interview guide was used to collect the data whose items contained tools for general administration, additional support, STEM, mathematics instruction, polynomials and assessment. These served as the cases of the study and data analysis. The analysis was undertaken in two stages. The first stage explored their knowledge and use of the assistive technology tools. The second stage analysed transcriptions of statements. The two stages helped to corroborate the findings. To ensure the validity and reliability of the findings, the interview guide was validated by post-graduate students of the Department of Special Education and Basic Education. The findings showed that the student-teachers had little knowledge and use of the basic assistive technology tools. However, they were still desirous to learn and use the basic assistive technology tools for mathematics teaching and learning. It was therefore recommended that stakeholders make available and accessible common basic assistive technology tools to schools, and restructure the mathematics curriculum to suit the integration of assistive technology tools.

scholarly journals Concepção e utilização da tecnologia assistva por profissionais da área da saúde/Conceptions and practices regarding the assistive technology for health professionals

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 282-299
Author(s):  
Bruna Roberta De Souza ◽  
Gerusa Ferreira Lourenço ◽  
David Dos Santos Calheiros
Keyword(s):  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Public University ◽  
Specific Training ◽  
Registration Form ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Technology Services ◽  
Assistive Technology Services ◽  
Correct Implementation

A partir da problemática quanto à concepção de Tecnologia Assistiva e da necessidade do conhecimento dessa área por parte dos profissionais para sua correta implementação, o objetivo deste estudo foi identificar as concepções e as práticas relativas à Tecnologia Assistiva dos profissionais da saúde que compunham a equipe técnica de um serviço-escola situado em uma Universidade pública do interior paulista, visando o seu uso mais efetivo. Participaram do estudo um terapeuta ocupacional, dois fisioterapeutas, um fonoaudiólogo e um psicólogo. Os dados foram coletados por meio de uma ficha de cadastro do participante e de um roteiro de entrevista semiestruturado. Os resultados encontrados foram organizados em sete categorias de análise e indicaram que a maioria dos técnicos considera a Tecnologia Assistiva como recursos e equipamentos que auxiliam o paciente a realizar determinada tarefa ou atividade. Poucos afirmaram que utilizavam a Tecnologia Assistiva em sua prática clínica, e apontaram a necessidade de formação mais específica para os profissionais da área. Conclui-se que esses resultados trouxeram informações importantes a respeito da inserção da temática Tecnologia Assistiva em serviços direcionados à população com deficiência, uma vez que há demanda específica de formação inicial e continuada dos profissionais técnicos presentes nessa instituição. From the problematic about of conceiving assistive technology and the need for knowledge of it by the professionals for its right implementation, the purpose of this study was to identify the conceptions and practices regarding the Assistive Technology for health professionals which made up the technical team of a School Service located in a public university in the interior of São Paulo, aiming its correct implementation. The participants of study were one occupational therapist, two physiotherapists and one psychologist. The data were collected through a registration form of participants and a semi-structured interview guide. The results were organized in seven different categories of analysis and indicated that most of the technicians consider Assistive Technology as resources and equipment that help the patient to perform a certain task or activity. Few said they used Assistive Technology in their clinical practice, referring that more specific training is should for the professionals from this field. It is concluded that these results provided important information about the inclusion need of Assistive technology services for the population with disability, once that there is specific demand of initial and continuing training for professional technicians from that institution.Keywords: People with Disabilities; Rehabilitation; Assistive technology. A partir de la problemática cuanto la concepción de la Tecnología Asistiva y la necesidad de conocimiento en esta área por profesionales para su correcta ejecución, el objetivo de este estudio fue identificar los conceptos y prácticas relacionadas a la Tecnología Asistiva de profesionales del área de la salud que componen el equipo técnico de un centro de formación ubicado en una universidad pública en el interior de la provincia de São Paulo.Visando su utilización más efectiva Los participantes del estudio fueron uno terapeuta ocupacional, dos fisioterapeutas, uno fonoaudiólogo y uno psicólogo. Los datos fueron recolectados por un formulario de registro de los participantes y una hoja de ruta semiestructurada. Los resultados fueron organizados en siete categorías de análisis e indicaron que la mayoría de los profesionales considera la Tecnología Asistiva como recursos y equipos que ayudan el paciente a realizar una tarea o actividad en particular. Pocos afirman que se utilicen de Tecnología Asistiva en su práctica clínica, y apuntan la necesidad de una formación más específica para los profesionales del área. Se concluye que los resultados proporcionaron informaciones importantes acerca de la inclusión de la Tecnología Asistiva en servicios de asistencia a la población con discapacidad, una vez que hay demandas específicas de formación inicial y continuada de los profesionales técnicos presentes en esta institución.Palabras clave: Personas con discapacidad; Rehabilitación; Tecnología asistiva.

Logic Blocks

2020 ◽  
pp. 52-61
Author(s):  
Giselle Lemos Lemos Schmidel Kautsky ◽  
Reginaldo Celio Sobrinho ◽  
Edson Pantaleão
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Technology Application ◽  
Norbert Elias ◽  
Regular Classes ◽  
Logic Blocks

This chapter presents perceptions resulting from a piece of a continuing education course developed in conjunction with basic education teachers whose goal was to adapt and analyze the use of the logic blocks as a manual assistive technology, aiming inclusive pedagogical practices in the work performed in regular classes intended for visually impaired people's enrollment. It is about a qualitative research, outlined as research formation. The data were obtained through reports and activities developed by teachers participating in a workshop stimulated during a training course. The analyses are supported by the presuppositions of figurational sociology of Norbert Elias. The results make it clear that the teachers consider organizing the assistive technology application as a tool for inclusive pedagogical practices.

scholarly journals Assistive Technology in the Construction of Number Concepts: A Study Entailing Actions of Teachers and Visually Impaired Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 155-179
Author(s):  
Maria Adelina Raupp Sganzerla ◽  
Marlise Geller
Keyword(s):  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Low Vision ◽  
Early Years ◽  
School Design ◽  
Educational Service ◽  
Number Concepts ◽  
Visually Challenged ◽  
Visually Impaired Students

Background: With the constant insertion of visually impaired learners in regular basic education in Brazil, it is important to create and/or adapt methodologies and equipment capable of aiding in the intellectual and social development of these students.  Objective: This article intends to reflect on the usage of AT (Assistive Technology) as well as the utilisation of adapted materials for visually challenged students in the early years of primary school. Design: With a qualitative approach, it is inspired by the Discursive Textual Analysis. Setting and Participants: The research included not only teachers who teach mathematics in both the Specialized Educational Service (SES) and regular classrooms, but also low-vision students in an inclusive school. Data collection and analysis: A snippet of the meta-text is presented, which, through the analysis of the services provided in the SES, ponders about the students’ necessities and activities within AT for the teaching of number concepts. Results: The research results attest that the usage of AT is, indeed, imperative in the students’ construction of mathematical concepts with the intention of implementing Inclusive Mathematics Education. Conclusions: Simple adaptations, such as providing materials in Braille for visually impaired students, are actions that classroom teachers could adopt, counting on the assistance of Specialized Educational Service professionals.

Construction of citizenship in hospitalized children, Peru

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Fernando Ledesma Perez ◽  
Maria Caycho Avalos ◽  
Juana Cruz Montero ◽  
Andrea Ayala Sandoval
Keyword(s):  
Structured Interview ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Hospitalized Children ◽  
Health Institute ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Communication Interaction ◽  
The Individual

Citizenship is the exercise of the fundamental rights of people in spaces of participation, opinion and commitments, which can not be violated by any health condition in which the individual is. This research aims to interpret the process of construction of citizenship in hospitalized children, was developed through the qualitative approach, ethnomethodological method, synchronous design, with a sample of three students hospitalized in a health institute specializing in childhood, was used Observation technique and a semi-structured interview guide were obtained as results that hospitalized children carry out their citizenship construction in an incipient way, through the communication interaction they make with other people in the environment where they grow up.

The Problems of Syrian Students in the Basic Education in Turkey

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volkan Alparslan Kılıc ◽  
Asiye Toker Gokce
Keyword(s):  
Basic Education ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Ethnic Origin ◽  
Study Group ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Student Profile ◽  
Language Problem ◽  
Making Friends ◽  
Education In Turkey ◽  
Turkish Language

Abstract In this study, it was aimed to examine the educational problems of basic education students migrating from Syria encountered in the schools. The research study group involved 37 Syrian students, 4 school managers and 18 teachers who were willing to participate to the research from four different secondary schools. The study group was chosen according to accessibility criterion. The data were collected through interviews. Therefore, the data was analyzed according to the qualitative methods. In the analysis of data collected by using face to face interview technique and semi-structured interview form, the content analysis method was used. According to the research results, it was determined that Syrian students have a language problem, especially during their education. They had sufficient knowledge of the Turkish language to manage their daily lives, however, academically the knowledge was concluded as insufficient. The main problems occurring among Syrian students are communication skills and adaptation. Main causes of these two problems are the differences between the ethnic origin among the Syrians students and the integration and communication with Turkish students. The Syrian students can be divided into two group as Syrian Kurdish or Syrian Arab. Both groups indicate that it is hard to communicate with each other due to the language difference. Furthermore, the Syrian girls expressed that they have more difficulties in being accepted and making friends, which causes the feeling that they are left alone. The findings of the research reveal that Syrian parents do not visit the school and that their skills of understanding and speaking Turkish are far behind their children's ability to understand and speak Turkish. According to the students 'views, the main reason for their parents' not visiting the school is the language problem. According to the data obtained from the interviews conducted by the administrators, guidance teachers and class teachers of the schools, it has been determined that some Syrian students have problems in integration during school, lack of motivation for the classes, and a more introvert student profile compared to other students. On the other hand, it was also stated that it was uncommon that Syrian students were included or had caused for any improper circumstances at school or were involved in any disciplinary case.

Patients’ Perceptions of Caring and Uncaring Nursing Encounters in Inpatient Rehabilitation Settings

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan C Cheruiyot ◽  
Petra Brysiewicz
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Inpatient Rehabilitation ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
The Self ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Textual Data ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Being There

This study explores and describes caring and uncaring nursing encounters from the perspective of the patients admitted to inpatient rehabilitation settings in South Africa. The researchers used an exploratory descriptive design. A semi-structured interview guide was used to collect data through individual interviews with 17 rehabilitation patients. Content analysis allowed for the analysis of textual data. Five categories of nursing encounters emerged from the analysis: noticing and acting, and being there for you emerged as categories of caring nursing encounters, and being ignored, being a burden, and deliberate punishment emerged as categories of uncaring nursing encounters. Caring nursing encounters make patients feel important and that they are not alone in the rehabilitation journey, while uncaring nursing encounters makes the patients feel unimportant and troublesome to the nurses. Caring nursing encounters give nurses an opportunity to notice and acknowledge the existence of vulnerability in the patients and encourage them to be present at that moment, leading to empowerment. Uncaring nursing encounters result in patients feeling devalued and depersonalised, leading to discouragement. It is recommended that nurses strive to develop personal relationships that promote successful nursing encounters. Further, nurses must strive to minimise the patients’ feelings of guilt and suffering, and to make use of tools, for example the self-perceived scale, to measure this. Nurses must also perform role plays on how to handle difficult patients such as confused, demanding and rude patients in the rehabilitation settings.

Perspectives of community members on homeless people with mental illness in Nsawam, Ghana

2020 ◽  
pp. 002076402098419
Author(s):  
Kwamina Abekah-Carter ◽  
George Ofosu Oti
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Homeless Persons ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
People With Mental Illness ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Audio Data ◽  
Good Food

Background: Homelessness among people with mental illness has grown to become a common phenomenon in many developed and developing countries. Just like in any other country, the living conditions of homeless people with mental illness in Ghana are unwholesome. Despite the increased population of these vulnerable individuals on the streets, not much is known about the perspectives of the general public towards this phenomenon in Ghana. Aim: This research was conducted to explore the perspectives of community members on homeless people with mental illness. The main study objectives were (a) to find out the impacts of the presence of persons with mental illness on the streets and (b) to ascertain the reasons accounting for homelessness among persons with mental illness. Method: Utilizing a qualitative research design, twenty community members were sampled from selected suburbs in Nsawam and interviewed with the use of a semi-structured interview guide. The audio data gathered from the interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed thematically. Results: Majority of the participants asserted that homeless people with mental illness had no access to good food, shelter, and health care. They further stated that some homeless people with mental illness perpetrated physical and sexual violence against the residents. Moreover, the participants believed that persons with mental illness remained on the streets due to neglect by their family members, and limited access to psychiatric services. Conclusion: This paper concludes by recommending to government to make mental health services accessible and affordable to homeless persons with mental illness nationwide.

Investigation of Attitudes Toward Chemistry and Learning Experiences of Pre-Service Chemistry Teachers

2021 ◽  
pp. 191-211
Author(s):  
Dwi Wahi/udiati ◽  
Hari Sutrisno ◽  
Isana Supiah YL
Keyword(s):  
Random Sampling ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Chemistry Teachers ◽  
Inquiry Based Learning ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Attitudes Toward Chemistry

The objective of this research was to investigate the level of students' attitudes toward Chemistry and Learning Experience (ATCLE). The research sample included 191 students (61 male and 130 female) from three universities; Universitas Negeri Mataram, Universitas Islam Negeri Mataram, and IK1P Mataram, Indonesia. The sample has been selected through cluster random sampling and snowballs random sampling. Mixed method research with a descriptive correlational survey model and a semi-structured interview was employed for the study. The data were collected by Chemistry Attitudes and Experiences Questionnaire (CAEQ) and an interview guide. Results showed no significant correlation in the level of attitude toward chemistry based on gender and grades. The finding also revealed that the attitude of pre-service chemistry teachers based on gender and grade were more positive towards research in chemistry than jobs related to chemistry. However, grades influenced the students learning experience, but there was no influence of gender on students learning experience. It is suggested that teachers need to develop a positive attitude toward chemistry and learning experiences of the students through inquiry-based learning practices.

Level of awareness of formwork design in the Ghanaian construction industry; enabling future technology application

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clement Boakye Danquah ◽  
Alex Acheampong ◽  
Theophilus Adjei-Kumi
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Inductive Reasoning ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Technology Application ◽  
Code Of Practice ◽  
Future Technology ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Specific Regulation

Purpose In the Ghanaian construction industry (GCI), the option for stakeholders to adopt formwork design as a building construction requirement is uncommon place. This is due to the low level of awareness and practice of formwork design. As a result of this, there have been formwork accidents, cost and time overruns in construction. This paper aims to solicit the view of stakeholders on the awareness of formwork design practices in the GCI. Design/methodology/approach This paper adopted the interpretivism research philosophy and inductive reasoning. Through a semi-structured interview guide, data was collected. The data (interview) recorded was transcribed using the Amberscript web application. This study used thematic analysis in analyzing the data collected using Nvivo 10 software. Findings The data collected from the 22 professionals indicated that the respondents were unaware of the concept of formwork design and its practice, neither could they speak to the existence of any specific regulation nor code of practice. However, the respondents established that there was a need to design formwork and stated some benefits of it. Originality/value From the literature, little research has been done on formwork design and its context in the GCI is yet to be explored. This research attempts to fill this gap. The findings indicate that to practice formwork design, there must be education and training of human resources for formwork design, there must be a code of practice to guide the design process and legal backing through policies and regulations to mandate the design.

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