THE PROGRAMMED ARITHMETIC STUDY APPLIED TO DEAF CHILDREN

Abstract

The author attempted to study the effect of programmed instruction applied to deaf children. He selected arithmetic to begin with, because it is the most logical subject, and most suitable to test the effect of such learning method.
He chose 26 5th grade pupils of a school of deaf, and he divided them into experimental and control groups.Each group had 13 pupils, 6 male and 7 female. They studied arithmetic 6 hours per week.The control group was taught by traditional method for all 6 hours per week.The experimental group was taught by a program studying 2 hours on paper per week along with other 4 hours by the traditional method.
These programs used for the experiment were already in use for normal children, so author presumed they were a little too difficult for deaf children.
Teaching of the experimental and control groups proceeded from May to December, 1964.Both groups were tested twice a month.The author examined the arithmetic achievement of deaf children with these tests.
In the first period of this teaching, the arithmetic achievement of both groups were almost equal level.(Table1).