Abstract:
This action research project set out to discover if using on-line blogging with eighth grade special education students would help develop their feelings of self-efficacy, increase motivation, and consequently raise their academic achievement in math. Blogging replaced some weekly paper and pencil homework assignments. A further line of inquiry was to see if there was a change in the existing unsatisfactory rate of homework completion. Findings indicate that instead of communicating through the blogs, blogging itself became a topic of conversation between the students. While homework completion rates did improve, it could not be determined if this was attributed to the blogging project. Although students’ enjoyed the project, excuses for non-completion of homework continued and access to computers was an issue.