Abstract

 The research is intended to measure the accuracy of Decision Support System (DSS) to identify the characteristics of children with intellectual disabilities. A number of 40 teachers in Central Java, Indonesia were assigned as the sample comprising 16 special school teachers and 4 inclusive school teachers. As respondents, these teachers are required to (a) have a training on sofware application of DSS program of identification instrument, (b) have an experience on using DSS program, (c) have full commitment to the research activity. The data was collected from questionnaire and analized by quantitaive description. The reseacrh concluded that DSS program indicated the accuracy of 99,8%, and as many as 92.5% of teachers commented that DSS program was easy to use for identification of children with intellectual disabilities.
Highlights
Children with disabilities regarding the physical, emotional, intellectual, and social problems, including those of gifted and talented have the right access to education (UU Nomor 20 Tahun 2003)
As an instrument used for identification of children with intellectual disabilities, Decision Support System (DSS) has four classifications of component i,e (1) input of data base to analize the characteristics of children with intellectual disabilities, (2) the user’s knowledge on interpreting the data of childrens’ characteristics yielded for observation, assignment, or interview, (3) output in the form of data which is transformed from the DSS application, (4) decision made by the user on the final result of identification for the sake of educational intervention of children with intellectual disabilities
DSS application is built on the web based-service where the operation is online, but offline is possible through our computer which is already installed with DSS system
Summary
Children with disabilities regarding the physical, emotional, intellectual, and social problems, including those of gifted and talented have the right access to education (UU Nomor 20 Tahun 2003). As an instrument used for identification of children with intellectual disabilities, DSS has four classifications of component i,e (1) input of data base to analize the characteristics of children with intellectual disabilities, (2) the user’s knowledge on interpreting the data of childrens’ characteristics yielded for observation, assignment, or interview, (3) output in the form of data which is transformed from the DSS application, (4) decision made by the user on the final result of identification for the sake of educational intervention of children with intellectual disabilities. DSS application is built on the web based-service where the operation is online, but offline is possible through our computer which is already installed with DSS system. Up on the accomplishment of these process, DSS is operationally applicable for use
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