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Direct linkSylviane Valdois; Ahmed Zaher; Svetlana Meyer; Julien Diard; Sonia Mandin; Marie Line Bosse – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
Longitudinal studies on mainstream children and training studies in the dyslexic population suggest that visual attention span (VAS) abilities contribute to reading acquisition. We evaluated to what extent VAS training in beginning readers might enhance later literacy skills. A large cohort of 453 children was followed from the beginning to the…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Visual Aids, Game Based Learning, Intervention
Bratlie, Siri Steffensen; Gustafsson, Jan-Eric; Torkildsen, Janne von Koss – Reading Research Quarterly, 2022
Language-minority students constitute a heterogeneous group, both in terms of skills in the majority language and contextual factors, such as language use at home and socioeconomic status. These characteristics may interact with the effectiveness of language instruction programs. This study investigated whether the effectiveness of a digital…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Computer Oriented Programs, Morphology (Languages), Language Minorities
Download full textZhanxia Yang; Patricia Moore Shaffer; Courtney Hagan; Parastu Dubash; Marina Bers – Grantee Submission, 2023
The aim of this study was to explore how the Coding as Another Language (CAL) curriculum, developed by Boston College's DevTech Research Group and utilizing the ScratchJr app, impacted students' computational thinking, coding skills, and reading comprehension. To accomplish this, the research team randomly assigned thirteen schools in a…
Descriptors: Coding, Second Language Learning, Curriculum Development, Programming Languages
Misquitta, Radhika; Ghosh, Aditi – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2023
Fluency Assessment and Benchmarking for Literacy in Education (FABLe) is the first mobile application being developed for the assessment of foundational literacy skills in India. FABLe passages are currently available in English for Grades 2, 3 and 4, with plans to expand to other Indian languages. FABLe is designed to administer curriculum-based…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Computer Oriented Programs, Foreign Countries, English
Urdegar, Steven M.; Carbone, Jonathan N. – Office of Assessment, Research, and Data Analysis, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2016
This report examines the outcomes of the Summer Programs, a two-pronged initiative developed by the Superintendent to provide supplemental instruction for students in need of remediation and access to selected digital application for practice outside the regular school context. The Summer Programs are comprised of seven In-Class components and one…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Program Evaluation, Supplementary Education, Remedial Instruction
Rowsell, Jennifer; Wohlwend, Karen – Reading Teacher, 2016
Building on existing research applying app maps (Israelson, 2015), the authors take an ideological orientation to broaden app evaluations and consider participatory literacies, social and communicational practices relevant to children's everyday digitally mediated lives. Drawing from their North American elementary classroom studies on children's…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Concept Mapping, Ideology, Handheld Devices
