The purpose of this study was to investigate in-depth visually handicapped children's understanding of the length measurement concept. The concept was investigated using four assessment devices that included the Transitivity of Length, Conservation of Length, Written Length Assessment, and Functional Length Assessment. Both quantitative and qualitative data were obtained on all the assessments. Twenty-four children participated in the study, 7 braille readers, 7 large print readers, and 10 regular print readers who were included for purposes of comparison. / The data were analyzed to determine if there was a difference between the three vision groups on each of the four assessments. The vision groups were then divided into high and low scorers on each of the four assessments to determine if there was any difference between high and low scorers by vision group on each of the four assessments. Overall, regular print readers had the least difficulty with the tasks and large print readers the most difficulty. Vision seemed to account for the differences rather than age. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-12, Section: A, page: 4083. / Major Professor: Pearl E. Tait. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1990.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_78369 |
| Contributors | Coleman, Patricia Janice., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 635 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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