Mark Warschauer

In an information society and knowledge economy, writing is a ubiquitous requirement for full civic and workforce participation. The evolution to more source-based, analytic writing can be seen in current educational standards and assessments, including the Common Core State Standards (CCSS); Next Generation Science Standards; and College, Career, and Civic Life Framework. Recent national education statistics indicate that U.S. students are not prepared to meet the challenges of this complex...

In this project, researchers will examine the efficacy of Visual Syntactic Text Formatting (VSTF), a technology for reformatting text to make it easier to understand, on 7th and 8th grade students' reading and writing outcomes. Students are expected to read and understand more and more complex texts as they get older, and many of these texts are complicated both in their language and their structure. One way to help students better understand the complex text they read is to adjust the print...