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Patel, Priyanka; Torppa, Minna; Aro, Mikko; Richardson, Ulla; Lyytinen, Heikki – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2022
Background: In 2018, it was found that only a quarter of Grade 3 children in India were reading at grade level. A growing demand for English education has further limited children's literacy achievement. Despite a strong evidence base in favour of using systematic phonics for building English literacy skills, many teachers in India continue to use…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Abrami, Philip C.; Lysenko, Larysa; Borokhovski, Eugene – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2020
ABRACADABRA (ABRA) is an evidence-based suite of interactive multimedia that engages learners in the development of core reading skills. This meta-analysis presents an update of the research evidence about the effectiveness of ABRA for elementary students. It reports 91 effect sizes in six reading-related outcomes for a sample of 7,388 students.…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Evidence Based Practice, Multimedia Instruction, Reading Instruction
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Serrano, M.-Á.; Vidal-Abarca, E.; Ferrer, A. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2018
The use of documents to perform tasks is a continuous task demand in the current knowledge-based society that involves making a series of decisions to self-regulate the use of text information. Low-skilled comprehenders have serious problems monitoring and self-regulating their decisions in these task-oriented reading situations, which has a…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies, Intelligent Tutoring Systems
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Wang, Y.-H. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2016
The study developed an adaptive computer-assisted reading system and investigated its effect on promoting English as a foreign language learner-readers' contextual vocabulary learning performance. Seventy Taiwanese college students were assigned to two reading groups. Participants in the customised reading group read online English texts, each of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Reading Instruction
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Potocki, A.; Ecalle, J.; Magnan, A. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2015
The purpose of this study was to examine the differential impact of a computer-based comprehension training programme according to second graders' comprehender profiles. These profiles differed in the children's abilities to process three types of textual information: literal information, text-connecting inferences and gap-filling…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Grade 2, Inferences
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Tanimoto, S.; Thompson, R.; Berninger, V. W.; Nagy, W.; Abbott, R. D. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2015
Computer scientists and educational researchers evaluated effectiveness of computerized instruction tailored to evidence-based impairments in specific learning disabilities (SLDs) in students in grades 4-9 with persisting SLDs despite prior extra help. Following comprehensive, evidence-based differential diagnosis for dysgraphia (impaired…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 8