Students with attention disorders often have a difficult time keeping up with the pace of classroom activities. Seven Hills Charter School (SHCS) has taken the initiative to help these students by sponsoring a Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Interactive Qualifying Project (IQP) team that will help determine technologies to support classroom activities for Seven Hills students with attention disorders. Together with the help of SHCS, an IQP team was set up at WPI to address this issue and try to come up with a solution. The team studied how students with ADD currently interact in the classroom and the technology they use to stay organized. They then presented potential technology that would further enhance student learning and potentially reduce the need of a full time special education aide to follow each student throughout the school day. The proposal presents, in detail, the four steps that were taken to complete the project: how the study was conducted, the analysis that was performed, the resulting data, and ultimately the recommendations that the IQP team suggested.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Do, Quan D.
• Lam, Vu Nguyen
• Flynn, Michael Joseph
• Roscoe, David Gregory
• Ireland, Corey Orton

Subject

• Computing
• Learning
• Community

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 04D256I

Keyword

• Education, Secondary
• People with disabilities--Services for

Advisor

• Loiacono, Eleanor T.

Year

• 2004

Sponsor

• Seven Hills Charter School (SHCS)

Date created

• 2004-01-01

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright