Article one- Academic Status and Progress of
Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students in General Education Classrooms
Each and every child deserves the right to equal education no matter if
they have a disability or not. Just because students have a disability that
does not mean that they will not learn like their classmates. Results from a
standardized test taken by 197 students with hearing loss show that students
with hearing loss can obtain information as well as someone who can hear. The
results from the math, reading, and language tests showed that over 70% of
students with hearing loss scored average or above-average in math, over 60% of
students with hearing loss scored average or above-average in reading, and over
75% of students with hearing loss scored average or above-average in language.
The overall result of the experiment showed that students in general education
classrooms can learn like their peers.
The creditability of this article is well thought out and written. Before
writing the article, the authors tested certain students to gain evidence to
support their theory. The authors received evidence to prove to the readers
that students with hearing loss can learn as well as their peers. The results
of the tests given to the students with hearing loss, show that students with
hearing loss are average or above average while learning the class standards.
The authors of this article are given good creditability because they state
their thesis and support it with facts and evidence.
Article two- Predicting Academic Success Among Deaf College Students
Children
with hearing loss are often struggling throughout their educational career in
school. Even though they struggle to learn like their peers, they manage
through. Students who are hard of hearing were most likely grown up in a
house hold with hearing members. In the analyze of the results of tests taken
by deaf and hard of hearing students, (DHH) DHH students scored positive.
This means that they are able to understand and work with their hearing peers
and classmates. DHH students are able to understand and comprehend the
information given to them.
The authors of this article give
test results from tests taken by deaf and hard of hearing students to support
their theory that students with hearing loss can understand and work with their
hearing peers. The creditability is alright, but not as well-written as article
one. Article one proves its thesis statement by evidence and facts to show
their thesis statement is true. Article two, states that they analyzed results
from tests taken by students with hearing loss, but do not give details about
the test results. If this article gave more details about the results from the
tests taken by the students with hearing loss, it would have more
creditability.
Article three- Large-Scale Academic Achievement Testing of Deaf and
Hard-of-Hearing Students: Past, Present, and Future
Deaf and hard of hearing students are given tests to help acquire the
statistics to record the academic achievement of these students. The testing
has three objectives to discover; find out the academic achievement of a DHH
student in general schools, to find out if DHH students will need extra help in
school such as special education, and to research for new ideas for future
testing experiments in the future. Testing for the DHH students have changed in
the past three decades. Students are taking these tests to benefit themselves
along with other DHH students in their position.
This article only talks about the different types of tests given to
students with hearing loss. The authors of this article, do not talk about the
results of the tests to support their theories. If the authors gave evidence
and facts to support the different types of tests and how they benefit students
with hearing loss, they would have received more creditability. The authors
talked about the purposes of the different tests and stated what would happen
if a student with hearing loss passed or failed one of these tests. The
creditability of this article is low due to a lack of supporting evidence and
details.
