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Download full textHernandez, Jimmy; Call, Todd; Throndsen, Jennifer; Nielsen, Darin – Utah State Board of Education, 2021
The Waterford Institute recognizes that nearly half of the country's 4-years-olds face socioeconomic barriers that keep them from early education. Utah Preparing Students Today for a Rewarding Tomorrow (UPSTART) is a home-based computer preschool program developed and provided by Waterford to prepare young children for school entry and future…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, Program Effectiveness
Hernandez, Jimmy; Call, Todd; Throndsen, Jennifer; Nielsen, Darin – Utah State Board of Education, 2020
The Waterford Institute recognizes that nearly half of the country's 4-years-olds face socioeconomic barriers that keep them from early education. Utah Preparing Students Today for a Rewarding Tomorrow (UPSTART) is a home-based computer preschool program developed and provided by Waterford to prepare young children for school entry and future…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, Program Effectiveness
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Direct linkDennis, Lindsay R.; Whalon, Kelly J. – Remedial and Special Education, 2021
A repeated acquisition (RA) design was used to compare the effectiveness of research-based instruction embedded in repeated storybook reading facilitated by an adult or tablet application (app) on the vocabulary knowledge of six preschool children. All participants selected scored below the 40th percentile on the "Preschool Language…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Program Effectiveness
Svetlana Poleschuk; Thomas Dreesen; Barbara D'Ippolito; Joaquin Carceles Martinez Lozano – UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight, 2023
In Italy, more than 700,000 asylum seekers and migrants arrived in the country between 2014-2020. Newly arrived children including refugees and migrants need to quickly acquire Italian skills to succeed in school and society. To help address this urgent need, the Akelius digital learning application was introduced in Bologna and Rome for Italian…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Educational Practices, Independent Study, Italian
Call, Todd; Throndsen, Jennifer; Nielsen, Darin; Norman, Patty – Utah State Board of Education, 2019
Utah Preparing Students Today for a Rewarding Tomorrow (UPSTART) is a home-based computer preschool program developed and provided by the Waterford Institute to prepare young children for school entry and future academic success. The Evaluation and Training Institute (ETI), has prepared this report for the Utah State Board of Education (USBE) to…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, Grade 1
Young, Sarah; Suddreth, Diana; Nielsen, Darin; Norman, Patty – Utah State Board of Education, 2018
Utah Preparing Students Today for a Rewarding Tomorrow (UPSTART) is a home-based computer preschool program developed and provided by the Waterford Institute to prepare young children for school entry and future academic success. The Evaluation and Training Institute (ETI), has prepared this report for the Utah State Board of Education (USBE) to…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, Grade 1
McManis, Mark H.; McManis, Lilla Dale – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2016
The use of touch-based technologies by young children to improve academic skills has seen growth outpacing empirical evidence of its effectiveness. Due to the educational challenges low-income children face, the stakes for providing instructional technology with demonstrated efficacy are high. The current work presents an empirical study of the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Preschool Children, Low Income Groups
Binger, Cathy; Kent-Walsh, Jennifer; Ewing, Cai; Taylor, Stacy – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2010
Purpose: Many classroom educational assistants (EAs) have a significant amount of responsibility in carrying out educational plans for children who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), but they receive little instruction on how to do so (Kent-Walsh & Light, 2003). This study investigates the impact of using a communication partner…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Interaction, Communication Skills, Teaching Methods
Whalen, Christina; Moss, Debbie; Ilan, Aaron B.; Vaupel, Manya; Fielding, Paul; MacDonald, Kevin; Cernich, Shannon; Symon, Jennifer – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2010
Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) has shown increased popularity recently and there are many studies showing promise for this approach for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). However, there are no between-subject studies to date assessing the efficacy of CAI with this population. In this study, 47 preschool and K-1 students in ASD…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Autism, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
What Works Clearinghouse, 2007
"Waterford Early Reading Level One"[TM] is an emergent literacy curriculum that uses computer-based technology to prepare children for reading. It begins with a tutorial to familiarize the child with the computer and mouse and a reading placement evaluation to assess and determine whether a child should work on "Level One"…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Readiness, Oral Language, Decoding (Reading)
Navarro, Jose I.; Marchena, Esperanza; Alcalde, Concepcion; Ruiz, Gonzalo – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2004
Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) has been shown to be an efficient learning-teaching procedure. Although there is an extensive educational software tradition using CAL approaches, few of them have demonstrated a better student performance than standard drill and practice methods. The purpose of this study was (a) to evaluate the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Software, Program Effectiveness, Prompting
Segers, Eliane; Verhoeven, Ludo – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2004
Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to determine whether kindergarten children with specific language impairment (SLI) could develop phonological awareness skills through computer intervention and whether speech manipulation (i.e., slowing speech rate and enhancing transitions) in instruction produced additional learning. Method: The…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Intervention, Kindergarten, Language Impairments
