Carol M. Connor

In this project, researchers will develop and test a series of digital books that embed strategies to improve word knowledge, comprehension monitoring, metacognitive skills, and overall reading comprehension for students in grades 3 to 5. While Kindles, iBooks, tablets, and electronic-books have become ubiquitous and offer affordances and have strong potential to improve readers' understanding, little content has been developed specifically for educational settings and few technologies provi...

In general, instructional approaches for improving reading comprehension are not as well developed as are those for decoding. As of 2013, most recent studies had focused on improving reading comprehension in the upper elementary years and beyond, but these have often not shown significant effects. The purpose of this project was to identify aspects of effective instruction in reading comprehension instruction that predict students' reading comprehension gains in first, second, and third grad...

The purpose of this project is to complete development of Assessment to Instruction (A2i) software, which is an integral part of the Individualizing Student Instruction (ISI) intervention. A2i was originally developed and funded under an earlier IES grant (Child Instruction Interactions in Early Reading: Examining Causal Effects of Individualized Instruction) as a research tool to compute recommended amounts and types of instruction taking into account that the effect of specific types of re...