dc.contributor.author	Burton, Pamela George	en_US
dc.coverage.spatial	Dalton, GA	en_US
dc.coverage.temporal	2005-2006	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2009-09-11T13:20:45Z	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2009-09-30T15:58:18Z	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2011-03-02T17:29:19Z
dc.date.available	2009-09-11T13:20:45Z	en_US
dc.date.available	2009-09-30T15:58:18Z	en_US
dc.date.available	2011-03-02T17:29:19Z
dc.date.issued	2006-05	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10428/59	en_US
dc.description.abstract	A group of middle-grades students served in a Special Education Information Literacy class were taught a 6-step procedure for completing a research report through the use of an interactive multimedia instructional unit. The students were surveyed pre- and post-intervention to describe experiences, changes in learning and increase or decrease in self-confidence with completing research assignments. A pre-intervention assessment, in the form of a 250-500 word research project, was scored using a typical middle-grades research grading rubric. The students and the teachers maintained daily journal entries to describe experiences, learning, and self-confidence during the intervention. A similar post-intervention assessment was used to determine the percentage of change in skills possibly attributable to the multimedia instruction. While the rubric scores of the students increased from 100 to 167% after the multimedia instruction, the scores remained below the minimum passing score. Students experienced difficulties with the time allotted for each lesson, indicating they needed more time and practice to internalize the procedure.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	Special needs	en_US
dc.subject	Information literacy	en_US
dc.subject	Multimedia Instruction	en_US
dc.subject	Research assignments	en_US
dc.title	Multimedia Instruction: A Path to Information Literacy for Students with Special Needs	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Curriculum and Instructional Technology	en_US
dc.description.advisor	Zahner, Jane	en_US
dc.description.committee	Webb, Jessica B.	en_US
dc.description.committee	Schmertzing, Lorraine	en_US
dc.description.degree	Ed.S.	en_US
dc.description.major	Instructional Technology	en_US