Early Reading Intervention to Benefit English Learners
September 8, 2015
Efficacy of the Targeted Reading Intervention to Benefit English Learners Steve Amendum along with colleagues from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University are investigating an early reading intervention and professional development program, the Targeted Reading Intervention (TRI), to test its efficacy with English learners (ELs). The …
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Classroom Instruction to Enhance 1st Grade Writing
September 8, 2015
Investigating the Impact of Classroom Instruction and Literacy Skills on Writing Achievement in First Grade In an effort to determine the best methods to teach writing skills for first graders, School of Education faculty members David Coker, Charles (Skip) MacArthur and Liz Farley-Ripple received a four-year $1.4 million grant, funded by …
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Reading Recovery Scale Up
September 8, 2015
Reading Recovery: Scaling Up What Works Henry May, director of the Center for Research in Education and Social Policy (CRESP), is leading a team of researchers from the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) to conduct a five-year independent evaluation of the Reading Recovery scale-up. Reading Recovery (RR) is a research-based …
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Computerized Preschool Language Assessment
September 8, 2015
Using Developmental Science to Create a Computerized Preschool Language Assessment The purpose of this $2.8 million 4-year project is to develop a reliable, valid, norm-ready, research-driven, and culturally sensitive computer-based language assessment for children 3- to 5-years-old that can be administered in 20 minutes. The preschool language assessment tool is …
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Increasing Vocabulary in Preschoolers
September 8, 2015
Increasing Vocabulary in Preschoolers: Using Cognitive Science to Guide Pedagogy The purpose of this project is to create and test a novel approach to building preschool teachers’ abilities to foster vocabulary and therefore, broader language skills among preschool children from low-income homes. The $50K 3-year grant (subcontract from Vanderbilt) serves to …
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Enhance K-5 reading curriculum
September 2, 2015
Research to Practice Sharon Walpole is partnering with long-time collaborator Michael McKenna (University of Virginia) to use formative experiment techniques to enhance a K-5 curriculum the two have written. The pair developed Bookworms, a free, open-access, elementary ELA curriculum The curriculum was initially introduced in a rural school system in Georgia. It has …
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A software program that evaluates essay writing
August 14, 2015
Researchers have established that computer models are highly predictive of how humans would have scored a given piece of writing. However, Joshua Wilson, School of Education, took his research another step to look at how the software might be used in conjunction with instruction and not as a standalone scoring/feedback …
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