Share Paper: Outcome Assessment of Vocabulary Instruction Software for Deaf College Students

1. Eugene Lylak, Rochester Institute of Technology/National Technical Institute for the Deaf, United States

Abstract: This paper reports the results of pre-test and post-test measures collected to assess vocabulary gain over a course of study of specific vocabulary items using a teacher-developed web-based software program. Two groups of deaf college students participated as targets in the study, and one group of hearing college-age peers were used as a control group to establish a baseline score for correct vocabulary items. One of the deaf groups received experimental web-based instructional practice, while the remaining deaf group did not. The experimental group exhibited significantly greater mean gain scores on the post-test measure of vocabulary knowledge relative to the ...