IPad Apps’ Influence on Students’ Compliance

Abstract

The emergence of technology has ameliorated various fields in education. Technological
applications are being adopted by several schools to facilitate students’ learning. Teachers are
using such products to pave the way for more effective teaching practices. In addition, these
technological applications are utilized by parents to increase their children’s positive
behaviors. IPad and its educational application programs are effective tools for increasing
elementary students’ compliance with doing the reading homework. One of these applications
is Book Creator in which individuals can create children’s interactive stories. These
interactive stories make the reading homework an interesting assignment, and therefore
students’ compliance with doing homework is likely increasing. This paper describes the
importance of compliance with reading homework for students whose English is their second
language. In addition, this paper discusses how interactive reading books promote
compliance with homework completion. The study was conducted using a single subject
withdrawal design.