Bonnie J.F. Meyer

Writing is an important skill for learning, communication, and self-expression; however, national assessments indicate that many students in the U.S. do not write proficiently. The purpose of this project is to test the efficacy of We-Write, a web-based intelligent tutoring system that is paired with teacher-led lessons to improve 4th and 5th grade student writing outcomes. We-Write was developed in a previous IES study, and is delivered within the intelligent tutoring system for the structu...

Reading and comprehending expository texts in English is an important skill that remains elusive for many English learners (ELs) in the U.S. school system. The text structure strategy is a learning approach that helps student understand academic texts by organizing concepts into cognitive structures that parallel those used to communicate main ideas in text. The purpose of this project is to evaluate the efficacy of the Structure Strategy with Web-Based Adaptive Tutoring for English Language...

The purpose of this replication project is to test the efficacy of the Intelligent Tutoring system for the Structure Strategy (ITSS), an online tutor for fourth and fifth grade students that teaches them about different structures for text (e.g. comparison, cause and effect) to improve reading comprehension outcomes. One problem that many students who struggle to read may encounter is the inability to understand and remember what they read. The structure strategy is a method of understanding...

Writing is an important skill for learning, communication, and self-expression. However, national assessments indicate many students in the United States do not write proficiently. Persuasive writing is an especially important tool for communication, and the Common Core State Standards indicate that students need to be able to write persuasive essays by the end of fifth grade. The goal of this project was to develop and test a fifth-grade writing intervention, called Strategic Writing Assist...

English language learners (ELLs) are at particularly high risk for poor education outcomes due to poor reading performance. This risk becomes more apparent as ELLs progress through school and knowledge of academic language becomes increasingly important for learning. This project will extend a web-based intelligent tutoring system, Intelligent Tutoring using Structure Strategy (ITSS), designed to teach students explicit strategies for using knowledge of the structure of informational text to...