Aesthetic Aspect of CAI Courseware to Developmental Disability Children Learning

In this paper, aesthetic aspects of Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI) courseware, especially the number of colors used in the software to the learning achievement of Development Disability Learners, are discussed. Randomly selected 50 students among 142 special needs students who attended the same school were divided into five groups of ten students, with each group using different courseware with different numbers of colors used. The results show that learners achieve better with courseware developed with more than 6 different colors than those of utilizing 2 or 4 colors. Interestingly, there are no significant differences between courseware(s) using more than 6 colors, and numbers of colors used in CAI courseware has keen relationships with learners’ positive attitude and learning achievement.