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Download full textYusuf Canbolat; Rebeca Arndt – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
A concerning number of middle and high school students lack fundamental reading skills in the United States. One common way schools address this issue is by supporting those students with computer-assisted instruction. This study evaluates the causal effect of one such computer-assisted instruction intervention on English Language Arts achievement…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Achievement Gap, Intervention, School Districts
Direct linkMyers, Brenda Gail – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Using a quantitative ex post facto causal comparative research design, this study analyzed the effects of the Academy of Reading software program on students' reading achievement. Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) reading scale scores of students in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades from 2013-2014 were utilized in this study. The…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Reading Achievement
What Works Clearinghouse, 2015
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) has updated its 2009 intervention report for SuccessMaker®, a set of computer-based courses designed to supplement regular K-8 reading instruction. The program is designed to improve skills in areas such as concepts of print, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, grammar, and…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension
Ponce, Hector R.; Lopez, Mario J.; Mayer, Richard E. – Computers & Education, 2012
This article examines the effectiveness of a computer-based instructional program (e-PELS) aimed at direct instruction in a collection of reading comprehension strategies. In e-PELS, students learn to highlight and outline expository passages based on various types of text structures (such as comparison or cause-and-effect) as well as to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conventional Instruction, Reading Comprehension, Instructional Effectiveness
Empirical Education Inc., 2010
Odyssey Reading, published by CompassLearning, is a comprehensive reading/language arts program using adaptive software for core instruction. This is the first study of CompassLearning's Odyssey Reading (CLO) in PUSD and was based on data from the school years 2006-2008. For this study, Odyssey Reading was implemented in reading classes in grades…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Literacy, Scores, Reading Instruction
MARTIN, JOHN H. – 1964
OBJECTIVES WERE TO DETERMINE WHETHER A TECHNOLOGICAL DEVICE COULD TEACH 5-YEAR-OLDS TO READ, OVER WHAT INTELLIGENCE RANGES THE INSTRUMENT WOULD BE EFFECTIVE, WHETHER NEGRO CHILDREN FROM A RECENTLY CLOSED SEGREGATED SCHOOL WOULD RESPOND, AND WHETHER THE DEVICE COULD TEACH MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN. SUBJECTS WERE 22 KINDERGARTEN PUPILS FROM ONE…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education, Intelligence, Kindergarten Children
G/C/T, 1985
The article reviews the mechanics of learning to read and describes three computer programs to teach reading skills and three to build language skills in gifted students. Each of the programs is given an overall rating as well as rating for ease of use, visual appeal, reliability, educational value, documentation, error handling, and value for…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Gifted, Language Arts
Securro, Samuel, Jr.; Jones, Jerry D.; Cantrell, Danny R. – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2010
K-12 school practitioners and schools administrators need reliable results about the effects of instructional technology products as they strive to meet achievement compliance levels in politically accountable local and national contexts in the U.S. This study presents evidence regarding the effects of extensive engagement with computer-based…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Reading Instruction, Language Arts, Computer Software
Peer reviewedWray, David – Reading, 1986
Outlines a set of criteria for use by teachers in selecting and evaluating educational software. (FL)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Auten, Anne – Computers, Reading and Language Arts, 1985
Provides abstracts of documents reporting computer applications in reading and language arts that have been entered in the ERIC database. (CRH)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Higher Education, Language Arts
Peer reviewedBalajthy, Ernest – Reading Teacher, 1984
Points out why drill work has a role in the language arts classroom, explores the possibilities of using a microcomputer to give children drill work, and discusses the characteristics of a good software program, along with faults found in many software programs. (FL)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs, Drills (Practice), Elementary Education
Bailo, Ellen R.; Sivin, Jay – Computers, Reading and Language Arts, 1983
Reviews two vocabulary improvement programs that have recently been introduced. (FL)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Evaluation Criteria, Language Arts, Reading Instruction
Peer reviewedJournal of Reading, 1983
Discusses two computer applications to reading instruction: modification of a computer program that calculates readability and criteria for evaluating language arts software. (AEA)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs, Computers, Evaluation Criteria
Balajthy, Ernest – 1988
This paper discusses minicomputer-based ILSs (integrated learning systems), i.e., computer-based systems of hardware and software. An example of a minicomputer-based system in a school district (a composite of several actual districts) considers hardware, staffing, scheduling, reactions, problems, and training for a subskill-oriented reading…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Elementary Secondary Education
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Instructional Technology. – 1985
Designed for use by South Carolina school districts planning to include microcomputer language arts software for grades one through eight in teaching the Basic Skills Assessment Program (BSAP) objectives in grades one through eight, this booklet presents titles of software programs given a favorable review by review services, and correlates them…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education
