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Aaron Soo Ping Chow; Katy Nilsen; Jazmin Cruz; Dennis Ciancio – Online Submission, 2024
This independent quasi-experimental study conducted by WestEd reported that Lalilo had a large significant positive impact on students' oral reading fluency skills. This is an important outcome because fluency is both a critical component of literacy and a strong predictor of later reading success. Effects were particularly strong for students…
Descriptors: Computer Software Evaluation, Emergent Literacy, Beginning Reading, Reading Instruction
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Piper, Benjamin – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
There is a dearth of literature that use research design for causal inference that estimate the effect of information and communications technology (ICT) programs on literacy outcomes in early primary, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. There are several programs that have used ICT at a large scale, including Los Angeles, Peru, Nicaragua, Rwanda…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Instructional Effectiveness, Handheld Devices
Thames, Dana; Kazelskis, Richard; Kazelskis, Carolyn Reeves – Online Submission, 2006
The purpose of this longitudinal study was to explore the impact of a direct reading instruction program, "Reading Mastery (RM)," on literacy performance of students over a five-year period. Initially, 700 students in grades K-3 were randomly selected from six elementary schools to participate in the study; an additional 100…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Silent Reading, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction