Indiana University

The Principal Investigator (PI) will conduct a program of research for improving reading and spelling outcomes for adolescents with word-level reading difficulties or disabilities (WLRD) while participating in mentoring and training activities to develop expertise in iterative intervention development, models of word reading and spelling, and the development and dissemination of products with education stakeholders. Many adolescents, including those with learning disabilities, have significa...

The purpose of this project was to develop and test a framework, Supporting Early Interventionists of Toddlers with Autism to Build Family Capacity (SEITA). SEITA was designed to assist early intervention providers (EIPs) in implementing the Building Interactive Social Communication (BISC) intervention by helping parents mediate social communication learning in toddlers with emerging signs of autism. Autism spectrum disorder is the fastest-growing developmental disability and recent improvem...

The purpose of this project is to develop and validate computer-based summative assessments that focus on the science crosscutting concepts of systems and system models and structure and function. Consistent with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), the assessments developed from this project will integrate these crosscutting concepts with two disciplinary core ideas (e.g. ecosystems or Earth systems), as well as science practices (e.g. developing and using models or engaging in ar...

At the time of this study, full-day kindergarten was used increasingly as a strategy to address achievement gaps and promote early learning and school readiness. In this project, the researchers compared the academic results of full-day kindergarten with those of half-day kindergarten. Through this comparison, the researchers expected the results to show whether providing full-day kindergarten in two high-poverty schools improved academic performance and attendance rates and reduced special ...

The prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has grown dramatically in recent years, with advances in early identification now resulting in an influx of toddlers to the early intervention system. Although early intervention providers are required to implement evidence-based practices for this population, few models are available that target social communication, the core difficulty in ASD, at the preverbal stage when neurological development is most malleable. The proposed project direc...

To address the poor science achievement of high school students and to help reduce the achievement gap, high school science teachers need interventions that improve student learning in science. Unfortunately, there are few science interventions currently available to high school science teachers that have rigorous, scientifically based evidence of their impact on student's science achievement. Therefore, this study seeks to assess the efficacy of the Computer Assisted Learning Method (CALM),...