Instructional Software for Classroom use
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This document discusses instructional drill-and-practice software for classroom use. It outlines key aspects of selecting effective drill-and-practice software, including allowing sufficient time for students to think and answer questions, accurately judging answers, and providing understandable feedback. Benefits are described as well, such as immediate feedback, increased student motivation over traditional paper methods, and freeing up teacher time. Potential limitations are also noted, such as software being misused for lessons rather than practice, and criticism that drill-and-practice contradicts constructivist teaching aims.
Instructional Software for Classroom use
- 1. Instructional Software for Classroom Use REPORTER: VANESSA JOY T. BULANADI
- 2. Drill-and-Practice Software Selecting Control Over the Drill-and-Practice Answering the given questions or problems are given time limit, however, a good drill-and-practice software still gives user enough time to think and answer before proceeding to the next question. Users may be given signal to the software if he/she is ready to go to the next question by pressing/tapping a key o clicking on a mouse button.
- 6. Answer Judging A good drill-and-practice program must be able to discriminate correct answers from incorrect ones, especially if the user is required to enter a short answer rather than simply choosing from a selection.
- 7. Gives Appropriate Feedback Two errors must be avoided when programs give feedback. First, program display sample, readable and understandable feedbacks, not to overly design the feedback. Second, programs carelessly give more interesting feedback when the user answers incorrectly. This, therefore, encourages users to give false answer to see the interesting response from the program.
- 8. Benefits Immediate Feedback Paper and pencil drill-and-practice gives delayed feedback, thus, students would not know immediately how much they performed in their drill and practice.
- 9. Motivation Students are not simply motivated doing paper and pencil drill-and-practice for reason that they do not like writing or they have poor writing skills. In drill-and-practice software, students get motivated not only because they will not write, but also because the idea of being in front of the computer that they love to operate and manipulate.
- 10. Saving Teacher Time Teachers can attend to other students needs while their students spend time doing the drill-and- practice. Some areas that benefitted the drill-and- practice are: Math, typing skills, English and foreign language vocabulary, countries and its capitals.
- 11. Limitations and Problems Perceived Misuse Some teachers make use of the drill-and-practice as part of lesson introduction and not really for practicing the students skills.
- 12. Criticism by Constructiveness People consider this drill-and-practice as an outmoded approach to teaching for this contradicts the aim of reconstructed curriculum.