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Pilot research at university students from Romania
By Georgiana Ghitulete (Ro)and
Dr Ian Smythe (UK) with collaboration of
Dr Magdalena Dumitrana (Ro)
"This presentation was prepared for the European Project "Provision and Use
of Information Technology with Adult Dyslexic Students in University in Europe"
Hyperion University
Placed in Bucharest
Private university
Open in 1990
21 Faculties
4-5 years of study
8000 Students
Pilot research detailsRecognizing Strengths and
Weaknesses of Students and Needs Assessment
1. Adapting the English questionnaire (developed by Ian Smythe) to Romanian language2. Finding a friendly university3. Applying the questionnaire to the 100 university students4. Data results processing5. Changing the questionnaire
Study sample
100 Hyperion university students (boys and girls)
All kind of study fields
Average age: 22 years old
Methodology
Questionnaire (“Adult Checklist” developed by
Ian Smythe)
with 37 identifiers (non-literacy and literacy) 33 out of 37 have 4 response choices 4 out of 37 have 2 response choices (yes, no)
Methodology
Directly by Georgiana Ghitulete and Magdalena Dumitrana
Paper based questionnaire
Applied in groups of 15-40 university students
Data processing
Using two different colours, we clasified literacy identifiers (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 10, 14, 16, 19, 22, 23, 25, 32, 34)
by non-literacy identifiers (5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13,
15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 35, 36, 37)
The results were graphical presented as following:
1. When writing, do you avoid using some words because you cannot
spell them?
3%
30%
6%
3%
58%
Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
Never
2. Is filling in forms a problem for you?
3%
13%
2% 9%
73%
Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
Never
3. Do you read books for pleasure?
17%
42%
39%
2%
Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
4. How easy is it for you to learn to write a foreign language?
14%1%18%
67%
Very easy
Easy
Difficult
Very difficult
5. How easy do you find it to recite the alphabet?
24%
1%
75%
Very easy
Easy
Difficult
Very difficult
6. How easy do find it to sound out words?
(eg. e-le-fant)
22%
78%
Very easy
Easy
Difficult
Very difficult
7. Do you get confused when given several instructions at once?
42%
12%2%
44% Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
8. Do you make mistakes whentaking down telephone messages?
1%
3%12%
2%
82%
Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
Never
Absence
9. If asked to repeat a phone number you have just heard, do you mix up or
miss out numbers?
1%
38%
11%1%
49%Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
Never
10. Do you mispronounce long words?
5%
31%
3%
61%
Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
Never
11. Do you mix up numbers, like 95 and 59?
10%
15%
3%
72%
Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
Never
12. Do you forget people`s nameseven though you have just been told
them?
2%
28%
25%
10%
35% Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
Never
13. Do you lose your place ormiss out lines when reading?
1%
26%
7%2%
64%
Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
Never
14. Do you make mistakes copying things down?
3%
19%
1%
77%
Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
Never
15. How easy do you find visualising an object or pattern that you have just
seen?
2%
47%
3%
48%
Very easy
Easy
Difficult
Very difficult
Absence
16. What do you consider your reading speed to be?
61%
7%1%
31%
Fast
Average
Slow
Very slow
17. Would you say you are clumsy?
3%
34%
8%2%
53%
Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
Never
18. Do you confuse words when saying them, such as
“autobuz” for “troleibuz”?
13%
14%
2%
71%
Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
Never
19. Do you confuse visually similarwords when reading
(eg. lac, loc)?
1%
12%
10%
2%
75%
Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
Never
Absence
20. Do you find it difficult to find the right word to say ineveryday conversation?
6%
25%
7%2%
60%
Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
Never
21. Do you confuse the names of things, such as objects
(eg. “tabla” for “scaun”)?
3%
21%
4%
72%
Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
Never
Absence
22. When reading, do you mistake a word for one which meanssomething similar, such as“doctor” for “asistenta”?
2%
19%
4%
2%
73%
Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
Never
Absence
23. When writing do you find it difficultto organise your thoughts on paper?
8%
32%
11%
3%
46%
Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
Never
24. How often do you obtain a wrongnumber when using the telephone?
4%
20%
3%
73%
Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
Never
25. Are you told your handwriting isdifficult to read?
1%
7%
24%
8%
4%
56%
Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
Never
Absence
26. Do you have difficulty tellingleft from right?
13%
3%
7%
6%
2%
69%
Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
Never
Absence
27. Is map reading or finding your wayto a strange place confusing?
6%
31%
14%
10%
39% Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
Never
28. Do you find it difficult to organiseyourself?
3%
27%
10%1%
59%
Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
Never
29. Do you misplace personal itemssuch as keys?
4%
23%
7%2%
64%
Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
Never
30. Do you mix up dates and times,and miss appointments?
1%
13%
13%
1%1%
71%
Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
Never
Absence
31. Do you find it difficult to do sumsin your head without using your
fingers or paper?
8%
3%
27%
13%
4%
45%
Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
Never
Absence
32. Do you re-read pages orparagraphs you have just read
to understand them?
1%
45%
29%
6% 19%
Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
Never
33. Do you think of unusual (creative)solutions to problems?
31%
37%
22%10%
Rarely
Occasionally
Often
Most of the time
34. When you were at school did youwrite shorter essays than others?
61%
1%
38%
Yes
No
35. When you were at school did youlearn your multiplication tables easily?
15%
1%
84%
Yes
No
35. When you were at school did youhave difficulty when asked to read
aloud?
81%
1%
18%
Yes
No
36. When you were at school did youtake longer than others to read
a page of a book?
79%
1%
20%
Yes
No
Conclusions
Very hard to find a friendly university (lack of understanding and awareness of the dyslexia issues)
No response to the internet applying of the questionnaire (lack of technology and interest at national level)
A part from students asked for a moreover response choice (“never”)
Conclusions
As a result of the research a dyslexia adult checklist is being developed, in collaboration with Dr Ian Smythe and Prof Linda Siegel.
Contact:
Georgiana Ghitulete
email: [email protected]
for further details.
