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Sylviane 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
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Youssef Tazouti; Aude Thomas; Lara Hoareau; Annette Jarlégan; Blandine Hubert; Christophe Luxembourger – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
Educational apps can help children develop their early numeracy skills, but only if they incorporate certain pedagogical features. AppLINOU is an early numeracy app that was co-designed by a multidisciplinary team to be compatible with the way numeracy is taught in France's preschools. This study of whether incorporating AppLINOU into classroom…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Numeracy, Mathematics Skills, Teaching Methods
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Unahalekhaka, Apittha; Bers, Marina Umaschi – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Project-based assessment has been used to evaluate coding projects created by students for a long time. Nevertheless, there is a lack of rigorously tested project-based coding rubrics that are developmentally appropriate for early childhood. This study presented the development and testing of a coding rubric to evaluate children's creations with…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 2, Student Projects
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Prana Dwija Iswara; J. Julia; Tedi Supriyadi; Enjang Yusuf Ali – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2023
Early reading skills at elementary school age have implications for reading performance at a later stage. The use of representative application-based learning media in the digital era has become a necessity. It was discovered that the learning practices implemented by the teachers did not stimulate students' motivation as the learning media tended…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Computer Oriented Programs, Handheld Devices
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Amukune, Stephen; Barrett, Karen Caplovitz; Szabó, Norbert; Józsa, Krisztián – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2023
Performance-based tools to assess school readiness domains such as Approaches to Learning are lacking in Low and Middle-Income Countries such as Kenya. This study aims to develop the Kenyan version of the FOCUS app (Finding Out Children's Unique Strengths), a game-like computer tablet assessment of two Approaches to Learning domains: mastery…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Games, Handheld Devices, Mastery Learning
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Adrea J. Truckenmiller; Eunsoo Cho; Samantha Bourgeois; Ellie Friedman – Reading Teacher, 2024
The purpose of this article was to offer guidance to educators in evaluating the strengths, weaknesses, and most effective uses of commercial reading assessment suites. We provide three resources to help educators who are responsible for making instructional decisions in reading using formal screening, benchmark, interim, and progress-monitoring…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Decision Making, Reading Achievement, Evaluation Methods
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Song, Yanjie; Wen, Yun; Yang, Yin; Cao, Jiaxin – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
This article reports on an exploratory study on developing and adopting a 'Virtual Go Mode' feature embedded in a mobile vocabulary learning app, VocabGo, to enhance students' vocabulary learning engagement. Distinguished from other virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) applications, the Virtual Go Mode is designed for students to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Handheld Devices, Computer Oriented Programs, Vocabulary Development
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Zhanxia 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
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Polychronis, Shamby C.; Johnson, Andrea; Thelin, Russell J.; Eggett, Dennis L.; Christensen, Jaime – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2023
The use of mobile applications (apps) is popular among parents and teachers due to their cost-effectiveness and ease of implementation, and the number of apps with the specific aim to increase eye contact for children with autism is growing rapidly. However, research is limited to assess the efficiency of the majority of the apps available for…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Computer Oriented Programs, Autism Spectrum Disorders