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Download full textHill, Darryl V.; Lenard, Matthew A.; Page, Lindsay C. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2017
School districts across the United States have increasingly adopted information and communications technology (ICT) in an attempt to improve student achievement across a wide range of educational settings. This paper examines the impacts of Achieve3000, an early literacy program that differentiates non-fiction reading passages based on individual…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Grade 3
Center for Children and Technology, Education Development Center, Inc, 2016
"Fable Writer" is an online reading, writing and research tool designed to facilitate synchronous, collaborative writing tool that enables learners to read and copy text and images from teacher-curated books and Web-based resources in the "Fable Reader" digital library. The "Fable Writer" project addressed two…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Collaborative Writing, Writing (Composition), Computer Uses in Education
Estimating Reading Growth Attributable to Accelerated Reader at One American School in the Caribbean
Direct linkFoster, David K.; Foster, Dean P. – Reading Psychology, 2014
This article provides a statistical analysis of the reading gains observed at one American school in the Caribbean that was using Accelerated Reader. It provides an estimate of the number of hours students needed to read to advance their reading performance an additional year. The authors estimate how much Accelerated Reader contributed to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Achievement, Achievement Gains, Reading Instruction
What Works Clearinghouse, 2013
The "Read Naturally[R]" program is a supplemental reading program that aims to improve reading fluency, accuracy, and comprehension of elementary and middle school students using a combination of texts, audio CDs, and computer software. The program uses one of four products that share a common fluency-building strategy: "Read…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness, Elementary School Students, Computer Uses in Education
Slavin, Robert E.; Lake, Cynthia; Davis, Susan; Madden, Nancy A. – Center for Research and Reform in Education, 2010
This guide summarizes "Effective Programs for Struggling Readers: A Best Evidence Synthesis," a research review conducted by Johns Hopkins University's Center for Research and Reform in Education. The purpose of the review was to evaluate the achievement outcomes of alternative approaches for struggling readers in grade K-5: (1) one-to-one…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Tutoring, Educational Technology, Phonetics
Sokal, Laura; Katz, Herb – Australian Journal of Education, 2008
In response to concerns about boys' academic underachievement as well as the international gender imbalance in our teaching force composition, a call has been made to hire more male teachers and practice "boy-friendly" pedagogy. Our investigation of effects of male reading teachers and use of computer-based books demonstrated their…
Descriptors: Underachievement, Reading Achievement, Reading Teachers, Males
Bernard, Robert M.; Bethel, Edward Clement; Abrami, Philip C.; Wade, C. Anne – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2007
This study examines the achievement outcomes accompanying the implementation of a Grade 3 laptop or so-called "ubiquitous computing" program in a Quebec school district. CAT3 reading, language, and mathematics batteries were administered at the end of Grade 2 and again at the end of Grade 3, after the first year of computer…
Descriptors: Laptop Computers, Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries, Grade 3
Sclater, Jennifer; Sicoly, Fiore; Abrami, Philip C.; Wade, C. Anne – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2006
The current investigation was an exploration of the first year of a multi-year project designed to provide every Grade 3 to Grade 11 student throughout an English school board in Quebec with a laptop computer. Data were collected from 403 elementary and 270 secondary students from the experimental school board and also from 330 students in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Laptop Computers, Access to Computers, Computer Uses in Education
