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Hypertext Support for Remedial Students and Students with Learning Disabilities

Kyle Higgins, PhD, is an associate professor of special education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her research interests focus on the use of technology as a tool to facilitate the learning and integration of students with disabilities in the general education classroom. Address: Kyle Higgins, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Department of Special Education, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154; or Higgins@Nevada.edu

Randall Boone

Randall Boone, PhD, is an associate professor of computer education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His research interests include the design of educational hypermedia and multimedia, and electronic publishing.

Thomas C. Lovitt

Thomas C. Lovitt, EdD, is a professor of special education at the University of Washington, Seattle. His research interests are school-based research, collaboration between schools and universities, and helping general education teachers to accommodate youth with disabilities in their classes.

Student use of pop-up text windows that support or extend information found in a high school social studies text provides a detailed look into the instructional effectiveness of a set of hypermedia study guides. Twenty-five students, 19 male and 6 female, with a mean age of 14.6 years participated in this study. Thirteen were students with learning disabilities and 12 were remedial students. Findings from the study indicate that hypertext (text-only) support provides adequate reinforcement to move remedial students and students with learning disabilities toward continued, unprompted use of a hypermedia study guide, and that short-term and long-term retention of information can be expected from text-only information support. Students who had access to the hypermedia study guides exhibited better information retention than students who did not use the hypermedia study guides.

Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 29, No. 4, 402-412 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/002221949602900408


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