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This study proposes to help fourth grade students who do not read enough as compared to their peers due to the low motivation. In order to deal with the low motivation as an instructional problem and improve the students’ reading performance, three graduate students of the University of Texas at San Antonio intended to design and develop software that is called My Story and teachers will be involved as facilitators. The hypothesis is: software increases learning motivation through self-directed with the technology involvement. Furthermore, the objectives of the project consider the standards of state of Texas for the fourth grade, which requires the fourth graders to pass the comprehensive exam. Additionally, constructivism and reinforcement theories will be merged in his study since the students will learn the applied software using their prior knowledge and will be reinforced to meet the objectives of this study for more effective outcomes and successful learning achievement. Since this project intends to solve the problem of low motivation in reading, our development team believes that the My Story software will motivate all of the fourth graders, due to the motivating and reinforcing factors that fit the individual differences for ten year-old students. Based on that, we expect that the students will like to read more and involve effectively in reading class in the future.
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