Bridget Dalton

The purpose of this project was to develop and test a technology-based instructional approach to improving reading comprehension among diverse struggling fifth-grade readers, including English language learners (ELLs). Over 3 years, the researchers planned to conduct 3 studies that developed and refined a digital reading environment called a universal learning edition (ULE), which has strong, embedded supports for reading strategies and active vocabulary learning. At the end of this project,...

In this project, this research team proposed to develop a computer-based instructional approach to support struggling readers and accelerate their development of reading comprehension, especially for informational text. In addition, the researchers wanted to determine how the genre of the text (narrative vs. science), the way in which the text was presented (multi-media website vs. digital text only), and how varied computer-based supports affected text comprehension by both strugg...