Structured Abstract
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Participating students include fifth and seventh grade students from four diverse school districts serving suburban or rural communities that include minority and low-income families
Research design and methods
The researchers are carrying out three studies of various features of the web-based tutor. The researchers are developing and pilot testing the web-based tutor in the project's first year. Following that, in the first study students are randomly assigned to use the tutor programmed to provide either simple or more advanced responses to their input, and either with or without the option of being able to choose what passages they practice their reading on. In the second study the researchers are interviewing students to discover how well they understand the structure strategy. In the third study, students are being randomly assigned either to a group whose use of the tutor is programmed to adjust to the individual student's learning progress, or to a group with a tutor that delivers the standard intelligent tutoring of the structure strategy.
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Products and publications
Book chapter
Meyer, B.J.F., and Wijekumar, K. (2007). A Web-Based Tutoring System for the Structure Strategy: Theoretical Background, Design, and Findings. In D.S. McNamara (Ed.), Reading Comprehension Strategies: Theories, Interventions, and Technologies (pp. 347-374). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Journal article, monograph, or newsletter
Meyer, B.J.F., and Wijekumar, K.K. (2011). Individualizing a Web-Based Structure Strategy Intervention for Fifth Graders' Comprehension of Nonfiction. Journal of Educational Psychology, 103(1): 140-168.
Meyer, B.J.F., Wijekumar, K., Middlemiss, W., Higley, K., Lei, P., Meier, C., and Spielvogel, J. (2010). Web-Based Tutoring of the Structure Strategy With or Without Elaborated Feedback or Choice for Fifth- and Seventh-Grade Readers. Reading Research Quarterly, 45(1): 62-92.
Wijekumar, K., and Meyer, B.J.F. (2006). Design and Pilot of a Web-Based Intelligent Tutoring System to Improve Reading Comprehension in Middle School Students. International Journal of Technology in Teaching and Learning, 2(1): 36-49.
Wijekumar, K., Meyer, B.J.F., Ferguson, L., and Wagoner, D. (2006). Technology Affordances: The Real Story in Research With K-12 and Undergraduate Learners. British Journal of Educational Technology: Special Issue on Technology Effects, 37(2): 191-209.
Proceeding
Wijekumar, K., Meyer, B., and Spielvogel, J. (2005). Web-Based Intelligent Tutoring to Improve Reading Comprehension in Elementary and Middle Schools: Design, Research, and Preliminary Findings. In Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (pp. 3206-3211). Chesapeake, VA: American Association for the Advancement of Computing Education.
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