María Graciela Badilla-Quintana, Gabriela Ramírez-Peña, F. Sandoval-Henríquez, Fabiola Sáez-Delgado, Ligia Gómez-Franco
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Abstract
Mobile technology can help personalize instruction and enhance generic and specific learning skills for students with special educational needs. This study examines the effects of a technology intervention strategy on the attention/concentration and spelling skills. Participants were students with permanent and temporary educational needs attending secondary schools in Chile. A pretest-posttest experimental design with a control group was adopted. 73 students participated, under three conditions: a) control group, with a printed guide-based strategy and without the use of technology, b) an experimental group with a computer-based strategy, and c) an experimental group with an iPad-based strategy. Analysis of Variance was used to compare the means of the three groups. The results show that the iPad-based strategy obtained significant differences compared to the other conditions. It is concluded that iPad mobile technology can improve both the generic attention/concentration skills and the specific spelling skills in students with special educational needs.
期刊介绍:
Aula Abierta es una revista científica semestral (enero-junio y julio-diciembre) que publica artículos inéditos sobre Educación, de carácter empírico o teórico, en español o inglés, relevantes para los investigadores o los profesionales de la Educación, a quienes va dirigida la revista. Más del 75% de los artículos publicados serán trabajos empíricos, que comuniquen resultados de investigación originales. El resto, trabajos descriptivos sobre experiencias educativas innovadoras o de naturaleza teórica, serán publicados solo por propuesta o solicitud previa del Equipo de Dirección de la revista. El objetivo principal de Aula Abierta es contribuir a la difusión de la investigación educativa de calidad que se realiza en España. No obstante, la revista también está abierta a la publicación puntual de trabajos internacionales, que resulten de especial interés y supongan una contribución relevante al campo de la Educación.