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A Game-Based Intervention to Promote Executive Function and Reasoning in Early Learning

NCSER
Program: Small Business Innovation Research
Award amount: $149,997
Project director: Grace Wardhana
Awardee:
Kiko Labs, Inc.
Year: 2014
Project type:
Phase I Development
Contract number: EDIES14C0047

Purpose

The project team is developing a prototype of Thinking Time, a tablet-based app and game for early learners (ages 3- to 6-years-old) that provides cognitive training games based on neuropsychological research. Game play will be self-guided and adaptive, and will support the development of working memory, attention and impulse control, and flexibility. The goal is to promote academic readiness by scaffolding cognitive skills during the early years of heightened brain plasticity.

Project Activities

In the Phase I pilot research, the project team will examine whether the software prototype functions as planned, if teachers are able to integrate it within the classroom environment, and whether children are engaged with the prototype.

People and institutions involved

IES program contact(s)

Edward Metz

Education Research Analyst
NCER

Products and publications

ERIC Citations: Find available citations in ERIC for this award here.

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CognitionEducation Technology

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