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Document Type
Dissertation
Degree
Doctor of Education
Department
Higher Education Administration
Advisor's Name
Ann Nevin
Advisor's Title
Committee Co-Chair
Advisor's Name
Linda Blanton
Advisor's Title
Committee Co-Chair
Advisor's Name
Janice Sandiford
Advisor's Name
Tonette Rocco
Advisor's Name
Elizabeth Cramer
Date of Defense
12-4-2008
Abstract
College personnel are required to provide accommodations for students who are
deaf and hard of hearing (D/HoH), but few empirical studies have been conducted on
D/HoH students as they learn under the various accommodation conditions (sign
language interpreting, SLI, real-time captioning, RTC, and both). Guided by the
experiences of students who are D/HoH at Miami-Dade College (MDC) who requested
RTC in addition to SLI as accommodations, the researcher adopted Merten’s
transformative-emancipatory theoretical framework that values perceptions and voice of
students who are D/HoH. A mixed methods design addressed two research questions: Did
student learning differ for each accommodation? What did students experience while
learning through accommodations?
Participants included 30 students who were D/HoH (60% women). They
represented MDC’s majority minority population: 10% White (non-Hispanic), 20% Black
(non-Hispanic, including Haitian/Caribbean), 67% Hispanic, and 3% other. Hearing loss, ranged from severe-profound (70%) to mild-moderate (30%). All were able to
communicate with American Sign Language: Learning was measured while students who
were D/HoH viewed three lectures under three accommodation conditions (SLI, RTC,
SLI+RTC). The learning measure was defined as the difference in pre- and post-test
scores on tests of the content presented in the lectures. Using repeated measure ANOVA
and ANCOVA, confounding variables of fluency in American Sign Language and
literacy skills were treated as covariates. Perceptions were obtained through interviews
and verbal protocol analysis that were signed, videotaped, transcribed, coded, and
examined for common themes and metacognitive strategies.
No statistically significant differences were found among the three
accommodations on the learning measure. Students who were D/HoH expressed thoughts
about five different aspects of their learning while they viewed lectures: (a)
comprehending the information, (b) feeling a part of the classroom environment, (c) past
experiences with an accommodation, (d) individual preferences for an accommodation,
(e) suggestions for improving an accommodation. They exhibited three metacognitive
strategies: (a) constructing knowledge, (b) monitoring comprehension, and (c) evaluating
information. No patterns were found in the types of metacognitive strategies used for any
particular accommodation. The researcher offers recommendations for flexible
applications of the standard accommodations used with students who are D/HoH.
Recommended Citation
Smith-Pethybridge, Valorie, "Effects of Real-Time Captioning and Sign Language Interpreting on the Learning of College Students Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing" (2008). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 277.
http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/277