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Zhang, Lishan; Huang, Yuwei; Yang, Xi; Yu, Shengquan; Zhuang, Fuzhen – Interactive Learning Environments, 2022
Automatic short-answer grading has been studied for more than a decade. The technique has been used for implementing auto assessment as well as building the assessor module for intelligent tutoring systems. Many early works automatically grade mainly based on the similarity between a student answer and the reference answer to the question. This…
Descriptors: Automation, Grading, Models, Artificial Intelligence
What Works Clearinghouse, 2016
Accelerated Reader™ is a computerized supplementary reading program that provides guided reading instruction to students in grades K-12. It aims to improve students' reading skills through reading practice and by providing frequent feedback on students' progress to teachers. The Accelerated Reader™ program requires students to select and read a…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Computer Uses in Education, Supplementary Education, Primary Education
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
What Works Clearinghouse, 2013
The study reviewed in this paper examined the effects of a web-based tutoring program, "Intelligent Tutoring of the Structure Strategy" ("ITSS"), on the reading comprehension of fourth-grade students in language arts classrooms. The analysis included 1,875 to 2,371 fourth-grade students from 100 to 117 classrooms in…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Web Based Instruction
What Works Clearinghouse, 2012
The study of "Thinking Reader"[R] is a multisite cluster randomized controlled trial. Ninety-two reading/English language arts teachers from 32 elementary and middle schools were randomly assigned within their schools to either the "Thinking Reader"[R] condition or the comparison condition. The analysis sample consisted of 90…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Computer Uses in Education, Computer Software, Reading Instruction
Meyer, Bonnie J. F.; Wijekumar, Kay; Middlemiss, Wendy; Higley, Kelli; Lei, Pui-Wa; Meier, Catherine; Spielvogel, James – Reading Research Quarterly, 2010
This study investigated the effects of different versions of Web-based instruction focused on text structure on fifth- and seventh-grade students' reading comprehension. Stratified random assignment was employed in a two-factor experiment embedded within a pretest and multiple posttests design (immediate and four-month delayed posttests). The two…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Reading Comprehension, Text Structure, Web Based Instruction
Fry, Sara Winstead; Gosky, Ross – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2008
This study investigated how middle school students' comprehension was impacted by reading social studies texts online with a pop-up dictionary function for every word in the text. A quantitative counterbalance design was used to determine how 129 middle school students' reading comprehension test scores for the pop-up dictionary reading differed…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Comprehension, Social Studies, Dictionaries
Houge, Timothy T.; Geier, Constance – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2009
To date, nearly all one-to-one literacy instruction is delivered in person, often in university-based reading clinic settings. This traditional tutoring format, however, has not met the needs or fit the schedules of many adolescents. Distance technology, accompanied with research that confirms literacy instructional components do remain intact,…
Descriptors: Spelling, Literacy, Tutoring, Teaching Methods
King, Andrew; Thomas, Matt; Nickens, Nicole – Online Submission, 2005
With a multitude of primary resource materials now available on the Internet, people are able to access rich content to aid in their understanding of trends, events, and relationships across recorded history. However, understanding the content and making meaning from it is often still a struggle. Primary source documents, intrinsically powerful in…
Descriptors: Primary Sources, Computer Uses in Education, Social Studies, Content Area Reading
Schirmer, Barbara R.; McGough, Sarah M. – Review of Educational Research, 2005
The authors conducted a synthetic review of the research literature on the reading development and reading instruction of deaf students and compared their findings to the review of research literature conducted by the National Reading Panel (NRP) on four topic areas: (a) alphabetics (phonemic awareness instruction and phonics instruction); (b)…
Descriptors: Deafness, Children, Reading Instruction, Phonics
Everhart, Nancy; And Others – Book Report, 1995
Includes five articles with the following topics: a computerized reading motivation/comprehension program used to enrich a high school curriculum; a summer reading-ahead program for seventh and eighth graders; educating students about censorship; protecting books from theft; and an author's visit that showed a high school how to integrate reading…
Descriptors: Censorship, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development, High Schools
Marshal Gentry, M.; Chinn, K. M.; Moulton, R. D. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2005
The purpose of the study was to assess the relative effectiveness of print, sign, and pictures in the transfer of reading-related information to children who are deaf. By means of personal computers, deaf children were presented CD-ROM-generated stories in four different formats: print only, print plus pictures, print plus sign language, and print…
Descriptors: Multimedia Materials, Reading Materials, Deafness, Reading Comprehension
Classroom Computer Learning, 1988
Provides reviews of four educational software packages which deal with problem solving, mathematics, history, and reading comprehension. Includes information about appropriate hardware, grade level, the publisher and purchasing. Contains comments about the strengths and weaknesses of each program. (TW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Reviews, Computer Uses in Education, Courseware
Kamil, Michael L. – Laboratory for Student Success (LSS), The Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory, 2005
In recent years there have been several attempts at integrating the research on reading. Snow, Burns, and Griffin (1998) delineated three areas of knowledge that, if appropriately dealt with, will prevent reading difficulties: knowledge of the alphabetic principle, fluency, and comprehension. Snow, Burns, and Griffin suggest that these areas…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Synthesis, Low Achievement