The Effect of Virtual Manipulatives Instruction on the Money Usage For Elementary Children with Multiple Disabilities

• Main Authors: Zhong,Meng-Fen, 鍾萌芬
• Other Authors: Lee,Shwuling
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/65407643556957618283

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 特殊教育學系碩士班 === 101 === The purpose of this study is to discuss the effect of virtual manipulative instruction on the money usage for the elementary school children with multiple disabilities. A multiple probing experimental design across behavior of signal subject research was adopted in this study. The participator is an elementary child with multiple disabilities. Virtual manipulative instruction software is used to make teaching documents by the author. The independent variable is the virtual manipulative instruction, and the dependent variable is the money usage learning effect of the participator. The data analysis includes for baseline, intervention, maintenance, and generalization. All the collected data is analyzed with visual analysis for estimating the effect of virtual manipulative instruction on the money usage for the subject. The conclusions of this study are summarized as follows: 1. Virtual manipulative instruction for the elementary school children with multiple disabilities in learning one, five, ten, fifty and one hundred dollars usage is instant, maintainable and generalized effects. 2. Virtual manipulative instruction for the elementary school children with multiple disabilities in learning one hundred dollars combining usage is instant, maintainable and generalized effects. 3. Virtual manipulative instruction for the elementary school children with multiple disabilities in learning one hundred dollars usage for convenience store shopping actions is instant, maintainable and generalized effects. 4. The credibility of all judges is between 80% and 100%. The average credibility is 95.28%. Hence, the judges’ credibility is good in this study. 5. The parents and teachers of the participators are all satisfied with the results and with positive attitude. The research is with good social effects. In the end of this study, the teaching and future research is proposed according to the researching results. Keywords: Student with multiple disabilities, Virtual manipulatives, Effects of money usage