The Effectiveness of Interactive Video on Digital Literacy of Students with Hearing Impairments

Students with hearing impairments have limited vocabulary which affects communication and reading comprehension. Visual media greatly helps students with hearing impairments in the process of understanding text. Interactive video is a moving visual media accompanied by text, links, questions, and discussions. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of interactive videos on digital literacy of students with hearing impairments. This study is pre-experimental study in one group, due to the limited research subjects, namely students with hearing impairments. The research design used one group pre-test posttest with 13 students with hearing impairments in special high schools as participants. The research subjects were given treatment in the form of the use of interactive videos for three weeks, before the treatment their digital literacy was measured and the following week it was measured again using a digital literacy questionnaire on a likert scale. The data analysis technique used in this study was to compare the pretest and posttest scores with N-Gain. The results of data analysis obtained a mean of .7231 which can be concluded that interactive videos are very effective for student with hearing impairment towards digital literacy. Interactive videos can facilitate the reading ability of student with hearing impairment through the various facilities provided, such as tests, content and links