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Considerations for Practitioners
The preliminary results of this study highlight the need to look holistically at the role of
graphics within the classroom and to consider ways that students can gain more exposure and
practice with graphics. Emerging data on the strategies used by the most efficient tactile
graphics users during these five tasks included:
• Use of both hands, often for different purposes
• Use of a way to hold place when going back to the question to the key (usually keeping
on finger in place while using the other hand to check)
• Use of strategies that reduced time (read questions first, scanned key for needed
information, etc.)
• Reading the question first
• Scanning key for needed information
• Identifying when something didn't make sense and go back to figure it out
• Accurately following and distinguishing lines and symbols
• Use of strategies to identify when information was ambiguous
• Able to break down what they needed to do into steps
Assessment of a student with VI's use of these strategies, among others, could help identify
starting points for instruction. Engaging a student with VI (both tactile and print graphic users)
in the use of think aloud as an instructional and assessment strategy could also be beneficial in
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