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Adlof, Suzanne; Frishkoff, Gwen; Dandy, Jennifer; Perfetti, Charles – Grantee Submission, 2016
Word learning can build the high-quality word representations that support skilled reading and language comprehension. According to the partial knowledge hypothesis, words that are partially known, a.k.a. "frontier words" (Durso & Shore, 1991), may be good targets for instruction precisely because they are already familiar. However,…
Descriptors: Semantics, Familiarity, Adults, Children
Jackson, G. Tanner; Varner, Laura K.; Boonthum-Denecke, Chutima; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2013
Educational games have the potential to provide motivating, effective training; however, the efficacy of these systems is unclear, and evaluations often fail to identify the relative impact of individual differences on learning outcomes. The current study aims to address these issues by comparing the learning gains from an educational game…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Program Effectiveness, High School Students