Book Description

The Exploring Compound Words software used as the basis of this study was developed by the researcher to aid students in English-Language Arts, interactively increasing their vocabulary development. The study systematically investigated the effects of Computer-Assisted instruction on learning compound words and fully incorporates the six levels of Bloom's Taxonomy to further enrich, enhance and extend the students' learning process. Twenty fourth graders, including both male and female students, were selected to participate in this study. These participants were tested to determine whether their English-Language Arts skills could be improved by using the interactive program. The participants were given a written pretest, treatment, and post-test. All pretest and post-test scores were compiled and scored with a paired t-test. In comparing the pretest and post-test scores, the results showed a significant increase on the post-test scores of the participants, thereby indicating that the students' language arts skills improved with computer-assisted instruction.