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Lombardi, Allison R.; Izzo, Margo V.; Rifenbark, Graham G.; Murray, Alexa; Buck, Andrew; Johnson, Victor – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2017
Information technology (IT) literacy skills are increasingly important for all adolescents to learn, as the majority of post-school pursuits will require at least some amount of computer skills. For adolescents with disabilities, this urgency is perhaps more pronounced, as this subpopulation typically experiences more dismal post-school outcomes…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics, Information Technology
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Arhipova, Svetlana Vladimirovna; Sergeeva, Olesya Sergeevna – International Education Studies, 2015
The main purpose of this study is to reveal the features of information and communication technologies application by the subjects of education in the conditions of special (correctional) school type VIII, and to identify the level of computer literacy of special education. The study was conducted on the basis of the State Budgetary Special…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Educational Technology, Special Education
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Anderson, Lori S.; Enge, Karmin J. – Journal of School Nursing, 2012
School nurses care for children with a variety of health-related conditions and they need information about managing these conditions, which is accessible, current, and useful. The goal of this literature review was to gather and synthesize information on technology-supported resources and to determine which met the educational needs of school…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Evidence, Educational Needs, School Nurses
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Kim, Dongil; Son, Jiyoung; Vance, Mary Lee – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2012
The purpose of the study was to identify the perceptions and needs of students with disabilities with respect to Information Technology (IT) training. Results emerged from a survey of 324 college students with disabilities from 17 universities in South Korea. Survey questions were divided into two sections: (a) perceptions about the relevance and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Information Technology, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Izzo, Margo Vreeburg; Yurick, Amanda; Nagaraja, Haikady N.; Novak, Jeanne A. – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 2010
A pretest-posttest control group experimental design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of EnvisionIT, a 10-unit web-based curriculum designed to teach secondary students information technology (IT) skills in the context of transition-planning activities. Fifteen high schools were stratified by socioeconomic status and randomly assigned to the…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Information Technology, Instructional Effectiveness, Conventional Instruction
Brown, I. C.; And Others – 1994
Application of Computer-based systems to Training in Information Technology (ACT-IT, a project by a consortium of partners in the United Kingdom and the Irish Republic, is part of the TIDE program, an initiative of the European Community (EC) to make information technology more accessible to disabled and elderly people. This paper outlines the…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programming), Computer Literacy, Courseware, Daily Living Skills
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Speitel, Thomas W.; Scott, Neil G.; Gabrielli, Sandy D. – Science Teacher, 2007
The Invention Factory is a nontraditional youth-based, after-school program in Honolulu that teaches information technology and mechanics to teenagers through interactive, hands-on projects that improve human computer interaction for individuals with disabilities. One objective of the program is to stimulate interest in science and engineering…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Programming, Disabilities, Career Education
Villagran-Glover, Frances, Ed.; Barnett, Lynn, Ed. – American Association of Community Colleges (NJ3), 2004
The AACC/SBC Excelerator project enabled community colleges and their partners in six states to expand special outreach and technology workforce training programs to people who are often ignored in the new economy: low-income adults, members of racial and ethnic minorities, welfare-to-work clients, at-risk youth, people with disabilities, and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, High Risk Students, Disabilities, College Credits
National School Boards Association, Alexandria, VA. Inst. for the Transfer of Technology to Education. – 1987
This special issue is a collection of reports on the applications of technology to schools, written by educators affiliated with the Technology Leadership Network (a group sponsored by the National School Boards Association). In "Meet the Pioneers of More Productive Schools," James A. Mecklenburger, the director of the National School Boards…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Communications, Computer Literacy, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Networks
Department of Labor, Washington, DC. – 2000
This booklet presents 12 examples of innovative initiatives to skill shortages nationwide. The description of each one provides this information: the challenge, partners, the story, and contacts with addresses and telephone numbers. The initiatives are Communications Workers of America and Cisco Systems: Military to Work Project; Knowbility and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Auto Mechanics, Building Trades
Delta Pi Epsilon Society, Little Rock, AR. – 2000
This publication contains 19 refereed research papers, 2 innovative instructional practices papers, 2 presentations on works in progress, and 3 papers on research training on promoting excellence in research and teaching for business. The research papers are "Business Demands for Web-Related Skills as Compared to Other Computer Skills"…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Action Research, Business Communication, Business Education
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers