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Direct linkMcCarthy, Kathryn S.; Watanabe, Micah; Dai, Jianmin; McNamara, Danielle S. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2020
Computer-based learning environments (CBLEs) provide unprecedented opportunities for personalized learning at scale. One such system, iSTART (Interactive Strategy Training for Active Reading and Thinking) is an adaptive, game-based tutoring system for reading comprehension. This paper describes how efforts to increase personalized learning have…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Reading Comprehension, High School Students, Educational Technology
Download full textMcCarthy, Kathryn S.; Watanabe, Micah; Dai, Jianmin; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Computer-based learning environments (CBLEs) provide unprecedented opportunities for personalized learning at scale. One such system, iSTART (Interactive Strategy Training for Active Reading and Thinking) is an adaptive, game-based tutoring system for reading comprehension. This paper describes how efforts to increase personalized learning have…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Reading Comprehension, High School Students, Educational Technology
French, Michael P.; Rumschlag, Karen – Language and Literacy Spectrum, 2004
The purpose of the present investigation was to sample the range of texts selected by 21 students in sustained silent reading in a single fourth-grade classroom. Using a sampling technique developed by French and Foster (1992), single pages from sampled texts were evaluated. The evaluation found that most students were reading fiction (n = 14),…
Descriptors: Sustained Silent Reading, Reading Material Selection, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
Rodriguez, Cecilia; Lira, Juan R. – 1998
A study focused on 41 eighth-grade students from a south Texas middle school who read self-selected books for 30-minute periods 5 times weekly from October 1996 to May 1997 to determine if increased reading time and book self-selection would improve their reading achievement. The study also sought to determine the students' attitudes towards…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Junior High Schools, Middle School Students, Middle Schools
