Plan to develop a model for the production of sensory tactile books

Subject Areas : Journal of Knowledge Studies

Marjan Nikbakht ¹ , zahra Abazari ² , Mohsen Haji Zeanolabedini ³ , Fahimeh Babalhavaeji ⁴

1 - PhD Student in Information Science and Knowledge, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch, Iran
2 - دانشیار گروه علم اطلاعات و دانش‌شناسی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد تهران شمال، ایران
3 - Faculty member of AREEO- Agricultural scientific information and documentation center
4 - Department of Communication and Epistemology, Faculty of Literature, Humanities and Social Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2020-12-25 Accepted : 2021-02-13 Published : 2020-10-22

Keywords: Publishers, Educators, Tactile books, Children books and reading materials, Blind and Visually impaired children,

Abstract :

Objective: To present a plan for developing a model for the production of tactile books (from the perspective of production experts and educators of blind and visually impaired 3- to 6-year-old children) Methodology: The present study is a combined application. In the quality section, the Delphi method has been used to obtain the consensus of experts in the production and publication of tactile books. In the quantitative part, a researcher-made questionnaire was used to aggregate the views of educational instructors in an analytical survey. The content validity coefficient of the questionnaire was higher than 0.99 and the content validity index was higher than 0.79. The reliability of the questionnaire was measured based on Cronbach's alpha coefficient equal to 0.863. The statistical population includes all experts in the production and publication of tactile books, which includes 33 production experts, of which 21 experts were selected as members of the Delphi panel in the qualitative part of the research by available sampling. In the quantitative section, all 76 in-service instructors were selected from 23 educational centers in Iran that work in connection with tactile books. Results: In the Delphi method in three stages and despite the low Kendall coefficient in the third round (0.565), it was concluded that finally the survey process of production and publishing experts, Delphi panel in the third round with 37 items Stop the questionnaire. Comparison of production criteria of tactile sensory books from the perspective of educational instructors to determine their approval indicates that the technical criteria of production (72%), content criteria (74%), and presentation criteria (72%) It was approved and among them, experts and educators assigned the highest amount to the content criterion with values ​​(74%). Finally, the criteria for the production and evaluation of tactile books from the perspective of educators were largely approved (72%). Conclusion: In order to understand the most important criteria for the production of textbooks from the perspective of production and publishing experts and educators, after analyzing the components and turning them into new factors, with the help of factor analysis Exploratory and relative chi-square index and fitting confirmatory factor were presented, and a model for the production of tactile sensory books was developed and proposed.